The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest

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The First Geek Wedding At a LinuxFest

Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 26, 2009 @06:32AM from the merging-the-source dept.

At the Ohio LinuxFest yesterday, two Linux geeks were married — or had their projects merged into a single trunk, as the officiant, Lord Drachenblut, put it. The wedding of Randy Noseworthy (proprietor of the Juiced Penguin) and Janet Edmonson was announced last week and was live-tweeted by at least one attendee — here's his photo of the happy couple. There's also a video of the ceremony, at which Jon "Maddog" Hall offered a blessing via pre-recorded audio.
Update: 09/26 20:03 GMT by KD : In the comments, anyaristow notes that this wasn't the first such wedding; Rob Landly and Fade were married at Penguicon in 2007, with Steve Jackson officiating and Eric Raymond as best man.

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It will all go well... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:34 · Score: 5, Funny

...until she finds out that he's into triple booting.
1. Re:It will all go well... by Z00L00K · 2009-09-26 07:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  For my part I'm just waiting for the merged processes to fork and create a child process.
  
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2. Re:It will all go well... by Damek · 2009-09-26 07:24 · Score: 1
  
  .. or until he finds out she is... ...or maybe they agreed on a specification beforehand...
  sheesh.
3. Re:It will all go well... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 11:30 · Score: 0
  
  And then the child moves out, dies, and the parents never check up on it or claim the body, so it becomes a zombie?
4. Re:It will all go well... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 15:24 · Score: 0
  
  A process would only be zombie-fied when the parents died and the child was left by himself not the other way around :)
Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:37 · Score: -1, Troll

Those two are hideous and their gimmick wedding sickens me.
1. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:43 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  He's just in it for her EverQuest avatar.
2. Re:Lame by Hal_Porter · 2009-09-26 06:46 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  I reckon the people that feel this way are truer geeks than people that proclaim their geekery in public like this pair.
  
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3. Re:Lame by tftp · 2009-09-26 06:52 · Score: 1
  
  They don't seem to be teenagers, for sure, but that is only for better - by now they know what is important in this life and what isn't.
4. Re:Lame by IANAAC · 2009-09-26 06:54 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Those two are hideous and their gimmick wedding sickens me.
  
  Gad, sometimes the slash herd are awful. Particularly anonymous cowards.
  You weren't invited anyway, so it's win-win for everybody.
  It was their moment. As long as it made them happy, that's great.
5. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:11 · Score: 0
  
  While their gimmick wedding sickens me as well, I think they look great together.
6. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:31 · Score: 0
  
  They're linux geeks, what did you expect?
7. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:34 · Score: 1, Insightful
  
  AC exists for EXACTLY times like this, so that people can post what they're really thinking, and not just spout platitudinous tripe to avoid seeming rude.
  Those two are absolutely hideous, and you bloody well know it.
8. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:41 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Was it really a Linuxfest, or a phat pharm graduation? America's biggest lusers? WTF?
9. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:46 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  You weren't invited anyway, so it's win-win for everybody.
  
  For better or for worse, if you post something on the public Internet you are inviting the public to view it, form opinions of it, and comment on it. Not all such comments will be 100% favorable. If you are fortunate, most comments will be pleasant likes the ones in this discussion but there is absolutely no guarantee that they won't be mostly unfavorable. If that is intolerable, you should reconsider posting it to the public Internet.
  
  It was their moment. As long as it made them happy, that's great.
  Sure, but why does having "a moment" automatically mean "a moment in the spotlight?" Can you see how maybe thinking this way leaves room for (or just plain invites) comments from the peanut gallery like the one you're replying to? Can't two people who love each other have a truly meaningful moment without producing a public spectacle for a bunch of strangers? Just a thought.
10. Re:Lame by Archades54 · 2009-09-26 08:33 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Hideous or not, they're both very happy together which is more than most people seem to have these days.
  
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11. Re:Lame by trytoguess · 2009-09-26 09:06 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Oh not this again... Yes, the internets are well within their rights to say the couple are ugly, or "Heil Hitler!" for that matter. People are also within their rights to tell such people to not be such jerks.
12. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 09:31 · Score: 0
  
  I think my main complaint is that it's just so cliche. People walk into the comments of an article like this, and they're shocked, SHOCKED, that someone has posted something negative. And they just HAVE to try to impart upon said grinch the happiness they should feel for the couple (barf).
  Someone, somewhere is gonna think something negative about almost everything, no matter how sappy you find it. Expect it. Get over it.
13. Re:Lame by trytoguess · 2009-09-26 10:43 · Score: 1
  
  I don't read any shock in IANAAC, just disgust and annoyance. Even when someone is used to the general assholishness of the net, it's still possible to wage a personal war on certain irritants. I for example have attacked people who believe any criticism on a work of art is an attack on the creator and them. It works on occasion as long as you're calm and polite.
  Anyway, you kind of miss my point. If we shouldn't be affected by random crass comments (which are also rather cliche), then the inevitable responses shouldn't be a bother either. A short of "get over it" to the guy saying "get over it" I guess heh.
14. Re:Lame by Dan541 · 2009-09-26 12:29 · Score: 1
  
  That's why so many geeks marry online.
  
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15. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 14:12 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  They both look obese. Let's see how happy they are when they are dying from a heart attack.
16. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 15:02 · Score: 0
  
  I doubt they wanted a moment in the spotlight. Someone else submitted this.
  But congrats to the new couple, marriage is awesome. Don't let the douchebags get you down, have a great life together! =)
17. Re:Lame by hairyfeet · 2009-09-26 16:02 · Score: 1
  
  Hey, while I admit the guy is kinda scary there ain't nothing wrong with having yourself a chubby girl. 1-they know where the good restaurants are. 2.-they not only ain't gonna bitch at you for eating a nice steak, hell they are probably good at cooking and will be happy to whip that sucker up with some home fries. No grazing or eating tofu shit with a chubby girl. 3.- they ain't on a diet, which cuts down the bitchiness by a factor of 100. Ain't nothing bitchier than a hungry woman son. 4.-they are a hell of a lot nicer to cuddle up with, and ain't gonna be bruising the hell out of you with those damned bony elbows.5.-they have an oral fetish...nuff said. Hell you tell her about steak and BJ day and she'll even mark it on her calendar!
  So say what you want about the dude, but leave the chubby girls alone. The last thing we need is more skinny, diet obsessed, bitchy as hell females in this world. The chubby ones are cheaper and low maintenance (you seen how much all that diet shit costs?), glad for the attention, hell of a lot more fun to be with, and don't even bitch about your beer or greasy fries. Ain't nothing wrong with having a chubby girl son, they make life just that much easier.
  
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18. Re:Lame by indiechild · 2009-09-26 16:43 · Score: 1
  
  Nobody is expressing shock that some asshole had to insult the happy couple on the Internets. IANAAC was just putting the AC in his rightful place. Equal opportunity freedom of expression and all that.
  On a related note, you must be fun at parties!
19. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 21:21 · Score: 0
  
  Ah, the old "the only alternative to a fat chick is a skin-and-bones chick" trick. There are lots of women who are neither fat nor skinny. Sorry, but being fat is just plain unhealthy and there's nothing good about it.
20. Re:Lame by Reservoir+Penguin · 2009-09-26 21:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  Post your pics on the internets - don't expect people shit roses on you. They are butt ugly, anyone can see it and while I'm polite enough not to say it to their face and ruin their moment, I don't see anything wrong with telling the truth anyone can seee on an unrelated bbs post-factum.
  
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21. Re:Lame by reiisi · 2009-09-27 01:29 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah the ancient Greek mathematicians in invented the mathematical aesthetics were geeks, but Geeks should especially be aware that all math is context sensitive.
  It's their opinions that matter to them.
  Go find someone who thinks your opinion matters and have fun with them.
  
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22. Re:Lame by Inner_Child · 2009-09-27 02:18 · Score: 1
  
  Ah, the old "I'm going to mistake chubby for fat, willfully ignoring that chubby actually DOES fall between skin-and bones and fat, so there's absolutely no reason for me to be posting" trick. Good one!
  
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23. Re:Lame by RandyNose · 2009-09-27 07:57 · Score: 1
  
  Those two are hideous and their gimmick wedding sickens me.
  It wasn't meant to be a Gimmick. It WAS meant to be fun, and to do something be with some of our friends. - As with many things. Reality gets blown out of proportion. Assumptions are made, and the Trolls will be Trolls. I had the un-expected pleasure to have two of Linux's most respected men included in my wedding. Jon MadDog Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) AND Doug McIllroy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy A Gimmick, No. Fun, Yes. Geek Cred? Who Cares? If you're sickened, would you care for a trash bag?
24. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-27 09:25 · Score: 0
  
  Ah, the old "let's pretend that chubby is 'normal' instead of fat" trick. Sorry, fatso, but the picture of the bride shows a fat chick, who the gp tried to describe euphemistically as "chubby". In case that's too hard for you to understand, I'll spell it out clearly for you:
  chubby = fat
25. Re:Lame by SleazyRidr · 2009-09-28 09:12 · Score: 1
  
  If you post a comment on the internet, you are inviting the public to view it, form opinions of it and comment on it. Not all such comments will be 100% favorable. If you are fortunate, most comments will be pleasant likes the ones in this discussion but there is absolutely no guarantee that they won't be mostly unfavorable. If that is intolerable, you should reconsider posting it to the public Internet.
  
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Just wait... by daemonenwind · 2009-09-26 06:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Just wait until he forks her kernel.....
The real question is, will they release child projects under the GPL?
1. Re:Just wait... by Shikaku · 2009-09-26 06:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If he forks her kernel he might have a kernel panic and then a core dump.
2. Re:Just wait... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:04 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Then off to a debugging session they go. Sad, really.
3. Re:Just wait... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 10:39 · Score: 0
  
  Between links to obesity and impotence, their (most likely) stance against anything that burns calories and just the sheer size, I'm not sure they'll consummate the marriage.
Good luck by The+Clockwork+Troll · 2009-09-26 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

More than 50% of all branch merges end in conflict.

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is that by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:43 · Score: 0

Mario?
Geez by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:45 · Score: 5, Funny

ALTER TABLE budget MODIFY COLUMN food BIGINT;
1. Re:Geez by f8l_0e · 2009-09-26 07:08 · Score: 1
  
  That is friggin' mean, but it also made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.
2. Re:Geez by Bluesman · 2009-09-26 07:28 · Score: 1
  
  I concur...that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen here.
  
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3. Re:Geez by lsolano · 2009-09-26 17:11 · Score: 1
  
  Very funny indeed.
  And yes, for all like me already married, after laughing at this, a strange sad feeling grew on me, remembering when my income was mine.
  I *think*, not really sure, I was able to buy CDs and food, not only food.
4. Re:Geez by orangesquid · 2009-09-26 19:06 · Score: 1
  
  "[A] strange sad feeling grew on me, remembering when my income was mine. I *think*, not really sure, I was able to buy CDs and food, not only food."
  Maybe thepiratebay can use this to gain political favor: "Saving the marriages of savvy Internet users!"
  
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QOTD by JJman · 2009-09-26 06:46 · Score: 1

Anyone else see the quote at the bottom?
"Marry in haste and everyone starts counting the months."
While it may not be appropriate, it does seem odd.
1. Re:QOTD by bartyboy · 2009-09-26 07:13 · Score: 1
  
  What freaks me out even more is the "Alter Relationship" link right after your user name. I guess Slashdot is a very progressive website.
2. Re:QOTD by harmonise · 2009-09-26 07:14 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  Anyone else see the quote at the bottom?
  Nope. I've been removing them with stylesheets for ages:
  
  @-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) { /* Remove insipid quote at the bottom of every page */ div[id="footer"] div[class="rightcontent"] { display: none !important; } #footer .search { width: 100% !important; text-align: center !important; position: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1em !important; } /* Make the search entry box wider to accomodate more text */ #footer .search input[name="query"] { width: 20em !important; } }
  
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He just wanted to Xiph her by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 06:51 · Score: 0

You know, insert his Vorbis into her OGG.
My big fat geek wedding by Geoffrey.landis · 2009-09-26 07:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Nah, that headline would be too obvious.

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1. Re:My big fat geek wedding by lolwhat · 2009-09-26 08:48 · Score: 1
  
  I wish I had mod points right now xD
Who The Fuck Cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:07 · Score: 0

Do you honestly care that two random people that you don't know and probably have never heard of got married? I sure as fuck don't.
They chose the wrong song by i_liek_turtles · 2009-09-26 07:08 · Score: 2, Funny

This would have been a better choice
1. Re:They chose the wrong song by TheBilgeRat · 2009-09-26 07:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  holy crap-I think I sang that song once at a Unitarian Universalist church, during the Committee to decide if we need a Free Software committee.
2. Re:They chose the wrong song by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 09:52 · Score: 0
  
  ye gods, Richard Stallman still looks like he just crawled out of a refrigerator box under the bridge.
  Get a friggin' haircut, trim down that hideous beard, and for the sake of everyone have a close encounter with a bar of SOAP.
Congratulations. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:10 · Score: 4, Insightful

I just thought I would use this opportunity to wish the couple a happy marriage.
1. Re:Congratulations. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 11:12 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  Yes, I'm sure your comment will mean just so much to them because they're certainly looking to slashdot for encouragement and well-wishing. While you're at it, try to look happy and overtly emotional and whatnot for the other million or so couples, equally unfamiliar to you, somewhere on this world who also announced marriage on the same fucking day. Nice to see the mods are just as fucking shallow and cliched as you though that's expected here on slashbot.
2. Re:Congratulations. by RandyNose · 2009-09-27 07:42 · Score: 1
  
  I just thought I would use this opportunity to wish the couple a happy marriage.
  Thanks.
Been done at Penguicon by anyaristow · 2009-09-26 07:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

It's already been done at Penguicon. Steve Jackson officiated and Eric Raymond was best man.
1. Re:Been done at Penguicon by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:34 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "and Eric Raymond was best man"
  Perhaps explaining why such an effort has been made to wipe it from our collective memory.
  CAPTCHA: 'romantic'. Something I never associate with ESR.
2. Re:Been done at Penguicon by petrus4 · 2009-09-26 13:47 · Score: 1
  
  CAPTCHA: 'romantic'. Something I never associate with ESR.
  That's not really fair. He has a wife.
  ESR is almost neurotypical. That is why he has been able to do the corporate relations stuff that he has.
Elderly linux geeks exist in the wild ?? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:17 · Score: 1, Funny

There are such? I heard before but now I see for myself. Sakes alive !! It's as if marriage was a wish granted before death comes knocking his final toll ??
Before the obvious retortion, yes, R.M.S. is elderly, but he is G.O.D. so that is expected !!
Honestly by Dunbal · 2009-09-26 07:19 · Score: 1

I will wait for the fork. It shouldn't be more than a couple months.

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1. Re:Honestly by Penguinisto · 2009-09-27 04:10 · Score: 1
  
  ...I bet neither of them had to wait out a nine-month-long compile...
  
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There's a section for this. It's called IDLE. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 07:25 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Seriously, keep this shit in Idle where it belongs.
Much Happiness and all that... by fm6 · 2009-09-26 07:29 · Score: 1

...but Randy, how about something on the front page of juicedpenguin.com that indicates what the site is for?
I'm astonished by Harold+Halloway · 2009-09-26 07:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Someone at LinuxFest had a girlfriend???
1. Re:I'm astonished by Shikaku · 2009-09-26 09:49 · Score: 1
  
  You didn't even read the title? It said wedding. They are husband and wife, not girlfriend and boyfriend.
2. Re:I'm astonished by Hognoxious · 2009-09-26 16:49 · Score: 1
  
  One, he said "had", which is past tense. Two, that's commonly a preparatory stage leading to husband & wife.
  
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3. Re:I'm astonished by lsolano · 2009-09-26 17:16 · Score: 1
  
  They are husband and wife, not girlfriend and boyfriend.
  Big question is: Âwere they girlfriend and boyfriend, ever?
  Maybe someone, quite rude, were kidding them and told them to get married, and if so, they will get a decent linux-desktop experience.
Yeah so wot.. I named my kid Linus.. by cowmix · 2009-09-26 08:25 · Score: 1

Where's my cookie?
1. Re:Yeah so wot.. I named my kid Linus.. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 08:36 · Score: 0
  
  poor bastard...
2. Re:Yeah so wot.. I named my kid Linus.. by selven · 2009-09-26 09:03 · Score: 1
  
  It's not a single bit worse than naming your kid "Mac".
Ceremony by eclectro · 2009-09-26 08:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Where is the ceremony where the the groom's friends spit on his nerd card, pour vodka on it, and set it on fire??

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1. Re:Ceremony by sqldr · 2009-09-26 18:02 · Score: 1
  
  Presumably, this will happen when one of them has their funeral at radio shack.
  
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Computers are like air conditioners... by bubba318i · 2009-09-26 08:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...they stop working properly if you open WINDOWS
1. Re:Computers are like air conditioners... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 10:19 · Score: 0
  
  wow. did you come up with that yourself or did you steal it from someone else?
  
  you sound like one of those loony religious freaks.
  
  fuck your little cult.
2. Re:Computers are like air conditioners... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 10:45 · Score: 0
  
  Open Windows? Windows isn't a program. That's probably where you're going wrong...
Which country leaglized this? by SpaghettiPattern · 2009-09-26 09:03 · Score: 4, Funny

two Linux geeks were married

I hear all sorts of thing like countries legalizing homosexual marriages, which is jolly good by me. But what's the bloody point in legalizing asexual marriages?!

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1. Re:Which country leaglized this? by Harold+Halloway · 2009-09-26 09:22 · Score: 1
  
  Sex will be wanking themselves off whilst watching webcams of each other.
ROCK ON!!!! by desibabi · 2009-09-26 10:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

LINUX ROCKS!!!!!!
What's in a name? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 10:37 · Score: 2, Funny

A Linux geek named Randy Noseworthy got married? That is news worthy.
Conrats to both of them!
Re:There's a section for this. It's called IDLE. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 11:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Fuck off, you fucking fucktard!
Wow. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 12:25 · Score: 0

Seriously?
1. Re:Wow. Who cares? by petrus4 · 2009-09-26 13:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Given the presumed rarity of a couple of Linux users having the requisite social skills to even *make friends*, let alone marry, I'd say this qualifies as an absolutely momentous event. They probably should have had the music from 2001 accompanying the bridal march; it'd be appropriate in more ways than one. ;)
Re:There's a section for this. It's called IDLE. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 13:02 · Score: 0

Nothing belongs in Idle. Idle sucks. I mean, the stupid internet videos/the Onion posts are pretty dumb, but it's the jacked up user interface that is really annoying.
All other sections of Slashdot work just fine. But once you go to Idle, it's like you've entered a dystopian alternate reality where nothing makes sense. I suspect that /. source out the work of developing/designing Idle to the same incompetent morons who're responsible for myspace's craptastic user experience.
Why the hell are the subject & comment boxes 12 characters wide (narrower than the drop-down list for formatting options)? Is Idle supposed to be browsed only from mobile devices? If so, wouldn't it be easier and make more sense to simply have a separate portal for mobile browsers, where content could be displayed using a separate template designed for low resolution screens (and, AFAIK, Slashdot already specifies different style sheets for different media types)? And why does comment preview work properly in all categories except for Idle (e.g. not displaying ordered lists properly.)?
Why do we care? by BudVVeezer · 2009-09-26 13:54 · Score: 2, Insightful

And this deserves to be on the front page of a non-idle post why?
Does anyone know them? by lsolano · 2009-09-26 17:21 · Score: 1

It's been a while since I don't read TOO many FUNNY comments here on slashdot.
If someone knows them please let them know they've made thousands of people happy today.
1. Re:Does anyone know them? by RandyNose · 2009-09-27 08:16 · Score: 1
  
  It's been a while since I don't read TOO many FUNNY comments here on slashdot.
  If someone knows them please let them know they've made thousands of people happy today.
  LOL? Thousands? I don't think so. A few hundred maybe at this point. We didn't do it to make slashdot. IF anyone cares... You can listen to a Linux Link Tech Show episode with me on it. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheLinuxLinkTechShowOgg-vorbisFeed/~3/_2zEC5jc-84/tllts_316-09-16-09.ogg
But can they... by KamuZ · 2009-09-26 21:45 · Score: 2, Funny

But can they run Lin... oh wait.
Just imagine... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-26 22:34 · Score: 0

...a cluster of Janet's.
Geek Weddings 1.0 by theodp · 2009-09-27 04:48 · Score: 1

Brand Fortner, who exchanged marriage vows with his wife on a PLATO monitor 20 years before online weddings were in vogue...
But a first at the Ohion LinuxFest by QuestorTapes · 2009-09-27 15:05 · Score: 1

> Update: 09/26 20:03 GMT by KD : In the comments, anyaristow notes that this wasn't
> the first such wedding; Rob Landly and Fade were married at Penguicon in 2007, with
> Steve Jackson officiating and Eric Raymond as best man.
True; it was, however, the first such event at the Ohio LinuxFest. I missed the actual wedding, but at the End after Douglas McIlroy's closing keynote address, one of the organizers (I think it was Beth Eicher; I was sitting a little too far back to see) told everyone and cheers went up.
It was fun.
Expect more by kaffekaine · 2009-09-28 08:25 · Score: 1

As gay marriage becomes more and more prevalent expect to see this trend continue.
Because as every Linux geek knows "LinuxFest" is a synonym for "SausageFest".
there's nothing he can do.. by disemq · 2009-10-07 07:21 · Score: 1

husband$ ps -fC wife UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 99 Sep26 ? 03:00:00 wife
When Big Projects Fork by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-09 20:01 · Score: 0

Once these two big projects fork. They will never see each other again.