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Linux For Supervillains

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.

computernut writes "Supervillains seem to like Linux. Take a peek at a cool Shockwave Animation on why they use it." Cute little animation. I think we might have shown it here before, but hey it's Sunday, and August which means this is the closest thing to news we might have all day.

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  1. News for Nerds? by Ubi_NL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My $DEITY
    This thing is nearly 3 years old
    It's mentioned on other websites with a date of january 2003!

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  2. Um, how come by TheEvilOverlord · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I post something relevant it gets rejected, but when someone posts an admittedly funny, but million year old flash animation, it gets front paged?

  3. Wow. by hungrygrue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wouldn't be surprised to see a /. story on, say, hampster dance in a few years. Not only has that video been around for years, but Darl Mcbride even referred to it in his "open letter" not long ago:

      A popular animation
                    on the Internet features a guy named Steve, the Linux Super Villain.
                    During the course of the 60 second animation, he describes his work
                    with Linux stating, "First you have to config it, then write some
                    shell scripts, update your RPMs, partition your drives, patch your
                    kernel, compile your binaries and check your version dependencies..."

    http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050808/lam060.ht ml?.v=19

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08/ 1717257&from=rss

  4. Re:Linux versus Windows by Otter · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But KDE and Gnome go down all the time. It's not really fair to talk about applications....Like in Linux, the base system can often save the rest.

    For most desktop use, though, an X crash (which is probably what you mean by "KDE and Gnome go down all the time") wipes out all your unsaved work and demands a reboot, just as a full-blown operating system crash does. The hair-splitting about "completely crash" doesn't change that.

    The bitching about BSODs goes back to when Linux use involved running vi in an xterm in FVWM on barebones video cards. In those days, the GUI really was rock-solid (and Windows was really as flimsy as people made out).

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