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OMG BARBIE LINUX LOL!!1!!!!
tini1212 writes "LIKE OMG!! Have you guyz seen Barbie Linux!!??!?!?!? It's like totally cool! It's open source too!!! We can spend long nights patching the kernel, and look at pictures of that total hottie, Linus Torvalds!" From the site: "Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The new OS was created by Mattel to power the upcoming revision of its popular B-Book line of laptops for girls between the ages of four and eleven. The original B-Book laptop, which ran a modified version of PalmOS, was a huge hit with consumers last holiday season, so much so that many stores had trouble keeping them in stock."
thankfully the day is almost over and we can get over the 20th lame april 1st story on slashdot
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
How come with all this cuteness you guys still aren't celebrating the cutest thing of all, Hello Kitty?
Is the pink going to go away when April Fools Day wears off in all time zones? Because I'm really enjoying this pink. It's so much better than that silly green was!
I hate barbie.
*#*#*#*#*#******* I love peanut butter sandwiches!
Anyone in the know uses Ken Linux. You can start malibuhouse daemon and sportscar daemon.
http://www.cushingproductions.com
(C) me 2006
This is scarily almost believable. :(
hahahaha I can see a little girl installing Linux on her hardcore pimped up new PC (which she just built). :P
...at least it's not a dupe :-)
It's like Totally awesome. I like saw this girl and she's off the hook! She's got a new P-P-P-Powerbook and it like runs Linux and it only cost shipping it was like totally free!
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Enough of the dumb shit. None of this is funny, cute nor readable.
Hang it up and let's get back to something that isn't moronic.
make.. it.. stop.
Is mental retardation the latest craze or am I missing something else here?
Everywhere else you get a nice chuckle about a witty april fools joke. But not so on Slashdot, where pain and the urge to make this day end overshadow even the least funny story.
Hint: it's not funny, dumbasses.
Looking at the net today, it can be changed to: IT-folks and webmasters not trying to fool you, but trying to be funny.
Up next: Jerry Seinfeld making webpages.
I have to admit though, this one was quite good.
Best story of the day, IMHO. The question is, can you strip here.. of the source code, of course!
http://www.automatiq.se
I think we all know that "patching the kernel" of your girlfriend can mean only one thing... your girlfriend is a robot running a modified linux distro as her OS. Nice job, man. Where can I download the iso?
Four roommates. No microwave. You do the math.
Get on with your lives. It wasn't that to begin with. let me know when the OMG BS is over...
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Yeay! It's Over! No more April Fools!
Mod this up informative! Wait, That s over too. Darn.
OMG! But does it have ponies? Maybe even a barbie dream house! OMG! Barbie Dream House with Ponies!!!!!1111!!!
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After seeing all these strange articles, I have come to the conclusion that these are not April Fools jokes. A real slashdot april fools joke would have been witty and subtle. It is obvious that someone is using CmdrTaco/Zonk to spread their OMG Pony/ Barbie propaganda. Probably communists.
If you are reading this CmdrTaco/Zonk, message for help by making the first letter of each word of the title of the next article spell out "SOS". Be discreet about it so that your caputures remain unaware. We will send the A-Team immediately.
That april fools page was made a long time ago, must be in 2004 or 2004. It still uses terms such as lindows. Also, that was a lot of effort, pictures and text for one april fools jokes. Usually there just short and to the point.
After a day of pink, the green looks jarring.
You are not the customer.
The whole point of april fools day is to try to TRICK people..you know... with GOOD jokes and tricks..
What the hell is the point of this shit on slashdot? It's not good, nobody believes it, it's not funny, and it's painful to read. It's fucking pointless. Nobody likes it.
Seriously use your freaking brains. They are there for a reason. Think of something good. Try to trick us. When 90% of the posts are bull shit we know not to believe any of it. Tone it down some. Make 1 or 2 posts that are jokes and make them seem real. That's the way to do it. That's how you guys did it back in the old days. What's up with this over the top CRAP?!
It's not even fucking funny, it doesn't trick anybody, nobody believes it. In other words it's completely pointless and it completely defeats the purpose of April Fools Day.
And yes I know I typoed a lot of shit, and I don't care.
Oh and you mods can shove it. I see you going around modding everybody redundant and troll.. Well eventually you're going to run out of mod points and then what?!?! exactly. Not a damn thing.
I bet you're an employee whose mad that we don't like you're STUPID jokes. So much for you running out of mod points you probably have a fucking zillion of them or you got some kind of exempt flag set in the database huh?
" Barbie Wizards guide girls through the process of partitioning their disks, formatting volumes, mounting Samba shares, and installing packages."
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
you guys did know about this right? http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/barbieOS.htm
Ummm, that's the (unfunny and ancient) article linked to in this (unfunny and banal) story.
Then we can go back to the usual, REAL, lame stories.
"Slashdot SUCKS on april 1st."
This has been true for years. Seriously, every single fucking year, blah blah blah SLashdot sucks on April 1st. I don't know why you guys are so dependent on this site.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I have a Google customized news page with one section on news related to Linux. Believe it or not, this /. article actually made it there. Nice to know Google is good at filtering out BS.
Every time you post an article on Slashdot, I kill a server. Think of the servers!
OMGODZORS! WHAT'S UP WITH caps lock got stuk THE CUTE PONIIIIIZ whats yelling howd everyon else get aorund the caps thingy? AAAAAAAAAHOAHAOI LOOOLZORZ LOOK WUT AHAYAVE DONE TOOTEEEE MEEEEE/????!!!_!_! OOAAOA
Spoken like a true adolescent/young adult trying to find a balance between the geek within and the perceived need to gain the acceptance of those he believes to be his peers. Poor guy.
As much as the site pisses me off I do like it for the most part.
The April 1st thing has been getting worse and worse every year.
When I first started reading the site they would do just a hand full of jokes, no pink site, no LOL's and no !!!!!!!!!!!!!'s
The jokes had a lot more brain power behind them and half the time the involved more than 1 site to make them seem more real.
These days the jokes are more and more forced. It seems like the staff doesn't even want to do them.. Like they HAVE to do them.. So they just go make a bunch of half assed forced jokes knowing how bad they suck just so their managers don't fire them for not doing April 1st jokes.
I just can't stand the fact that I can't read pretty much all of my favorite sites on this day. I know everything that gets posted is bull shit. I don't even have to use my brain to figure it out. There aren't real posts mixed in with the fake ones. It's all fake. It's all brainless fake stuff.
I want to use my brain. I want to forget that it was April 1st and be completely fooled by a joke or have to use my brain to figure it out.
Seriously. Is this site "news for nerds" or "news for myspace users"
(I think I over used the word brain, but fuck it I'm drunk and I don't feel like fixing it)
Since you posted this on sunday allready (atleast in this timezone) It can't be a joke anymore (your post). You do realize you are posting the same link as the post did right? ... k .. just making sure.
omg I almost broke my pocket protector in rage when I found out I was reading another joke item! When I come to slashdot I am all about serious news and I have no time for these petty jocularities. Please desist from abusing my vauned intellect, whose cycles should be better used pondering more weighty matters, such as how many joystick ports will come on the PS3!! /poneys etc.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
This wouldn't have even been considered funny or good 15 fucking years ago.
are you insinuating that things were funnier in the early 90s than they are today?
Oh man! The 18th Century would find your joke HIGH-LARIOUS!!!1
"Fred, that hasn't been funny since the 1st century!!!"
You know, this isn't really a bad idea. If this OS existed, I would be considering it for my daughter. This is exactly what KDE Plasma developers should be thinking for usability.
Try it, you'll like it.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
This set of 'pranks' is the most uninspired yet. Nice going, buttmunches.
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
Does Ken know about this? (woo hoo!)
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
...ping and waybitchen fucsia keyboards! That would so rock my world! I wonder if it's USB compatible?!??!!!111 :')
This is a few years old???? Can's Slashdot get new, original content?
Doggone it!!! I work weekends, and during my morning preshift (10 mins to boot up & bring up the apps), I try to do some cursory surfing, which includes Slashdot, and IT'S FREAKIN' PINK!!!! I had to go straight to Digg for fear that my co-workers would see my screen and think I was surfin' some Holly-Hobbie-Strawberry-Shortcake site or something!!!!
OMG 1T'S L1K3 A G1RLFR13ND - BUT MUCH CUT3RRRRR
Not one that any of us will get
Table-ized A.I.
At least Linux will finally have a user interface that is intuitive to the average computer user.
You tricky commenters!
I like how all of the commenters were pretending to be annoyed. That was really funny. For a while there I thought they really were annoyed. Ha ha you all, the joke is on me! Good one!
Honestly man, if they start extending past April 1st, I can totally sympathize. But I learned ages ago that April 1st is a writeoff for Slashdot. For that matter, just about any other news site as well. In the 3D Art Community I'm active in, there's all kinds of BS stories flying around. From my point of view, it's easier to just smile and avoid news that day than it is to get worked up about it.
Don't get me wrong, I understand your frustration, but by tomorrow, it's over. No biggie.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I wonder how many of those complaining could come up with something better....
I guess another deficit that some geeks share is a sense of humor!
So did Barbie dump Ken for Tux? Ken is such a luser.. Oh wait... Tux has a girlfriend.
This can be also found here http://board.iexbeta.com/index.php?showtopic=31202
Note the date and there is a link to the same site that slashdot has. Come up with
some new stuff not rehashed blab. Although still funny.
Whaddoyoumean? I think it's hilarious and besides, who needs proper news on a weekend anyway. Excellent hangover reading, IMHO. By the way, slashcrew, when do we get the pink skin as an option for us weirdoes? It kind of grew on me.
Why does the kernel go through stable and then unstable forks? Can't it always be a stable build, like with Windows?
this is from a few years ago... http://www.mslinux.org/
Well if it weren't reasonable to assume this could be aprils fools. This would be something I'd expect to happen at some time.
Most girls seems to like linux small games. And don't like the kind of big large budget windows games. Atleast those who tried what I had on my computer. Other things that they seem to do with computers, is IRC, IM &WEB surfing, and writing school essays, and wathing movies, and listening to music.
The movie playing part maybe only weakness of linux [getting past some DRM to play the thing], but if its stable in sence that they don't have to do anything and it just works then there is no reason that there couldn't be such distribution aimed at girls.
Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.
After seeing all these strange articles, I have come to the conclusion that these are not April Fools jokes. A real slashdot april fools joke would have been witty and subtle. It is obvious that someone is using CmdrTaco/Zonk to spread their OMG Pony/ Barbie propaganda. Probably communists.
Yes, only instead of the Red Spread we get the Pink Stink.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Since patching a kernal involves placing statements so as to produce a desired outcome I would venture the following as a guess:
"Aw, c'mon Sweetie! It was just a joke! Please Honey, OW stop hitting me, OW!" ...
So mix in some bizarre but *true* stories, to keep everyone unsure.
The whole idea is to fool people. But now it's to pretend to fool people.
Putting LOL!!!!! and OMG!!!!! in the story automaticcalyy says "This is an April fool, but we're telling you so you are not fooled. Because you all complain when you are, and we don't want to casue you offence"
try to make ends meet, you're a slave to money, then you die
I hope CmdrTaco will cover your losses since you must have lost very critical, up to date information on "Slashdot Information Site" because of this very unserious story.
How dare they post such a thing on a serious, mission critical information site such as Slashdot on April 2?
I bet your lawyers will call "Mr. Zonk" soon!