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McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux
sglafata writes "Novell has made an announcement that McDonald's is moving towards Linux. 'With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.'"
so, are they going to start serving penguinburgers?
Will they use the money saved to use better meat?
Or should I say, will they use the money saved to buy ACTUAL meat?
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
I thought the Hamburglar was already working with SCO.
Would this be a conflict of interest?
Time to update your success story pages again.
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Linus
. . . if Darl is dreaming of a McLicense with Coke®?
Slackware - because apt is for the lazy.
I'm conflicted. Part of me wants to jear, because I'm told McD is evil and I should hate it without question. And part of me wants to chear, since I'm told to support leenux without question. My knees don't know which way to jerk!
Actually, the Fries Transfer Protocol is definitely a core service.
Without the power of Windows they'll be bankrupt within months. I know that because I have a certificate.
Maybe a McDistro...
"Would you like Tux with that sir?"
McDonald's is trying to make new inroads with the wildlife-loving set. After penguin burgers they will be introducing the wildly successful Baby Seal breakfast sausage. But the tastiest addition to their menu will be the Bald Eagle McNuggets. Yum!
..Thought Linux didn't have driver support for their chips...
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
And the really ancient thing they're using here is SCO Unix which as far back as I can remember has never been 'modern' at any point in time. But as a *nix, porting from it to Linux should be a relatively straightforward proposition (as Autozone already know much to SCO's consternation and bogus lawsuits). And it may be that the vendors who wrote the databases, stock control / POS / accounting / payrole software have already done the work since Linux is a tier 1 platform.
Who knows, perhaps it was the vendors who motivated McDonalds to quit. Maybe they said to management what everyone already else knows - SCO is a piece of shit, the company is going down the plug hole, it won't run on hardware X and it'll cost $$$$ to support it even if it did. No doubt McD's IT department pushed the same story from the inside.
It's another kick in the balls for SCO which is always good for a laugh. It's too bad the markets are closed today because their stock is doing a good impression of the Titanic.
So long SCO, we hardly knew ye.
Services != servers
You're right. DNS, FTP and proxy can all be done on a single server. Some news.
Are they trying to switch their image of capitalism and globalization front of linux's fellows? No probably not. I mean, we aren't that much. Is just that Linux is pretty popular in Germany? Yeah we are near... even governament in some cities uses that, (what that Munich?) Oh damn i got it! They are trying to become a governative institution and establishing their headquarter in germany! Just genious! And will come the day when the hambugers will eat us! Beware the Majonnese of the Damn Burgers is closer and closer! Save your childs and your women! And if you were wondering, yes, i'm idiot.
will their recipes now be open source?
The food is absolute shit, but they use Linux...
Argh...
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Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
But stop calling McDonalds's quick & dirty energy salons "restaurants".
It's like saying "the MS-DOS operating system". Clueless people like it that way and all others.... Oh forget it
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
PR was sleeping, and yet sleeping.
no, wait. I guess that's called a franchise.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
... McDonald's announced their latest delicious product, McBride Meal.
unamericanism
;-)
Unamericanism? Auf Deutschland? Surely not
Hmm, well, I guess it could mean more efficient access to Chicken McNuggets...
You'll lose a lot of karma making mistakes like that.
No wait, my bad. I was totally wrong. You'll get BOTH posts modded up. Can I have a +4 insightful for pointint out my mistake?
Will we finally find out what the secret recipe for Big Mac sauce is?
Maybe they should use Windows XP rather than Linux. Just like the burgers, the XP desktop looks nowhere near as nice as it did in the adverts.
In the interest of providing optimal posts, I will now edit your message.
Poor SCO, McDonalds was their customer.
Thank you for your patience.
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McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector.
This is why I like slashdot. It's so educational.
Software Wars
Open sauce, of course.....
Oh arse
... I think they were talking about the burgers, not the corporate IT budget!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
In England, postman never used windows, modern folks have leterboxes!
I always thought that McDonalds is much like Microsoft - produces completely unedible product, but is obvois market leader and is known to everone.
Guess they'll be doing a complete install at every McDonald's as they love fat clients.
Omnis amans amens
I guess SCO will have to sue them now.
...that Linux is getting bloated
Now is the winter of our disco tent
You just increased SCO's pagerank with keywords "success story"!
Tell me, were you smoking something?
... and I suppose freshmeat.net will supply them with the meat?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Well one person I know who eats there does it because they are incredibly lazy when it comes to cooking. They need something to break up the monotony of Macaroni and Cheese and Chinese takeout.
Also parents who can't say no eat there because their kids like Mc Burgers.
That Suse will now look fresh and tasty on the box, but the actual product you get will be sort of stale, brown and wilted?
I seem to recall Michael Douglas going ballistic over this in a movie once...
They should have bought Apple's servers. Lots of big macintoshs. Miam.
It also makes one wonder, if they are going to move their burger ingredients to "open source" by revealing the contents of the foods...
"Would you like salt with that wound, Mr. McBride?"
Disclaimer: I'm not claiming that as an original quote on my part. Saw it on another forum and ROTFLMAO
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
No bird that eats fish has meat worth eating by humans. There's a short story, by Jack London, IIRC, on a seagull recipe. It starts with a long list of ingredients and preparation steps, and ends with something like "...then throw it all away and get something else to eat. Nothing tastes as bad as seagull".
wow, i can already imagine
kid : "Hey dad, what's that wierd thing in my burger instead of normal beef ?"
dad: "It's tux, a penguin, the linux mascott, and we will have to eat it now cause it's cheaper and more reliable and is licenced under GPL, make sure you publish it later after you have altered it."
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
New commands at the drive through:
Kill Cow
hash Meat
Mk Burger
Mount Burger
srv Burger
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