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Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch, Gentoo and Grml Merge
tomhudson writes "debian, arch linux, opensuse, grml, and gentoo are merging to create a new distro: 'We are
pleased
thrilled
enraged
aroused
to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community
distributions
projects
efforts
slapfights
formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against
proprietary
profitable
Gates'
cheese
operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common
golem
gaol
goal
gold
instead of creating more diversity. Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.' Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: 'Arch Linux has always been about keeping its
users
technology
competitors
internets
as simple as possible. Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity for developers, users and of course upstream
projects
managers
advertisers
salmon
. Canterbury will be the next evolutionary step of Linux distributions.' This will without a doubt put
pants
pressure
imperativeness
Jason
on Ubuntu."
n/t
/. so amusing.
April Fools Day.
Press [A|B|X|Y] to Jason
Still, I lol'd.
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
It just gets more disappointing every year.The vatican porn collection story was good tho.
zosxavius photography
If only this post was a bit truthful...
Rather, an unselectable option: I couldn't select "slapfights". That's even worse.
But sadly, this wasn't.
Or kilts.
Or is this like polls where you can't complain about missing options?
Nonetheless a nice one. Ubuntu and slackware was missing, though.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
You get a whole different set of comments depending on which selections you make in the post. Awesome.
Google will support the new distro and announces that it's changing the world's calendaring system so that a year is divided into 36 weeks with five World Holidays: New Year's, Americas Day, Africa Day, Europe Day and Asia Day. The months will no longer includ April because it's not funny.
*** Don't be dull.***
so, only a fool would get caught up in namegenderiviations on any given day, whilst the chosen ones holycost badtoll rages as the kode (truth be told) remains highly unused. like being a fool requires it's own day? lighten up. disarm
That all five of those distros could even agree on an April Fool's joke.
(The announcement is on all of their 'news' pages)
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Crow: Joel, I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the women.
Tom: Yeah, I can just imagine a scene from Ancient Greece: "Oh, hi, Hercules, have a seat!! Noooo!!!"
Joel: You are so right my little itty buddies. That's why we've put together a presentation. It's a little thing we like to call: PANTS!
Tom: (singing) Pants
Crow: Pants!
Bots: Sing the praises of pants!
Joel: Nothing better shows my taste, than what I wear below my waist!
Tom: Say! Pants! Hoo hoo!
Crow: Pants!
Bots: Sing the praises of pants!
Tom: They help me suck in my gut They always cover up my butt! Huh? Pants!
Crow: Pants!
All: Sing the praises of pants!
Crow: Wear them and you're a cool guy, as long as you zip up your fly!
Tom: Zip! Pants!
Crow: Pants!
Bots: Sing the praises of pants!
Joel: (spoken) That's right ladies and gentlemen! Consider the PANT! You know, the Pants Association urges you to wear your pants at least three times a day!
Crow: The great men of our time have all worn pants! Roosevelt! Churchill! DeGualle! Ghandi!--Well, almost all of them!
Tom: Dolphins! One of the smartest mammals on earth. Do they wear pants? NO! But they wish they did! That's how smart they are!
Joel: What keeps our legs all warm and hot?
All: Pants!
Crow: What prevents a buffalo shot?
All: Pants!
Tom: What do they got that I ain't got?
All: Pants!
Tom: Well, you can say that again Huh?
[Deep 13]
Frank: (singing and marching) Pants! Pants! Yang dang dang dang da Pants! Dang'a dang dang uh ha..ha ? (Dr. F. walks up behind him and quickly picks up his microphone) DEEP HURTING! DEEP HURTING!
hahaha. Yes, very good april fool's day jokes. Merging OpenSUSE and Debian? LOL the first thing that caused me to see that as odd is the fact that they have different packaging systems. RPM and DEB. :P Among other things.
if it were true, linux/gnu might actually get somewhere...
Notice that no link is included to the new website for the Canterbury distribution. That's too suspicious.
Almost fooled me, there.
Wow, here's another one of those encrypted messages. But no reply. There's usually a reply (an encrypted one, not just me trollin'!)
This tagline was transcoded to result in at least one smirk. If you experience failure to smirk, please consult your Gen
Is google ads also doing april fools? Check out the banner I got with this story: screen shot
The ad was linking to: this
if something like that ever happens, dont choose something like "Canterbury" as distro name.
Read radical news here
... Ahhh this is an good end to the night in oz, well done /.!
The tweaks should have let me choose:
..As [open-minded] as Debian, [technologically simple] as Gentoo, [stable] as Ubuntu etc...
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Changing a quotation is verboten, even on 4/1.
I F'ING HATE AprilFool's Day!
I tried it and discovered that description is wrong.
It is stable as Ubuntu, bleeding edge packages from Centos, newbie friendly as Gentoo, with great documentation from Arch and moreover I if you register you get technical support from Dell for free
Maybe they could merge and finally fix the dependency hunt problem with all those libraries and out-dated packages for each distro. Applications could actually come with the version of the library you need rather than relying on distributions to get it right.
as one distro that combined all the shortcomings of debian, arch linux, opensuse, grml, and gentoo: Gentoo's compilation of every package, debian release cycles and grml configurability.
I'm pleased that they finally did it, just wanted to let everyone know: This merger was my idea!
And a fine idea it is. About the only way to stop that ever-spreading cancer called Ubuntu. A distribution that simply takes, never ever gives back to the community, and above all brings people into our community that never had the right to use linux in the first place. People can even "try it out"before installing it.
Come on, do you "try out" Zen or Karate? No! You don't! You wash your master's car and polish it , you do the lowest duties for years and years, there is no elevator to the mountain! But no, not with Ubuntu! Some people, who should really be using windows, can now claim that they have their laptop, their desktop, their file-server, and their media center running linux! Without ever going through the required amount of suffering!
I welcome the merger and I plan to start a petition later today: the new super-distro should have only a text based installer and standard maintenance login only through a remote serial console!
ponies!!!
Will it support PnP wireless?
Floating in the black seas of infinity without a paddle.
BSD is dying.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
If you want to see what'll be posted here on April 2, get your Ars over to Technica.
Or a shirt so long that you don't have to wear pants.
About the only way to stop that ever-spreading cancer called Ubuntu.
Detractors will likely call this new distro "Cancerbury". I guess you have to fight cancer with cancer.
never had the right to use linux
GPL. What other right are you talking about?
People can even "try it out"before installing it.
Grml isn't the only distro to have a live CD. Debian-based Knoppix and the lightweight distro Puppy are also live CDs. But I'll admit that Puppy was my gateway drug to Ubuntu.
Some people, who should really be using windows
When Windows came out, smug MS-DOS weenies said the same thing about Windows users "who should really be using" Macs.
I welcome the merger and I plan to start a petition later today: the new super-distro should have only a text based installer and standard maintenance login only through a remote serial console!
Good luck with your server distro.
Windox 8 will be a joint effort of Apple and M$ bringing the best features of each of their OS's to users.
Hate april fools, actually would give said distro a spind & feedback in case it ever were to materialize ... though hell freezing over seems way more plausible
I think it would've been better if they had Debian merging with FreeBSD, that would at least be plausible, for specific values of plausible.
wow, this was coordinated
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110401-canterbury.xml
http://www.opensuse.org/
http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00006.html
It's just a matter of doing it old school.
Whatever they do with the April 1 thing today, I'm just grateful that we won't have to suffer through 6 stories of PONIES!!! this year. Crap, that was crummy! <shudders at the memory>
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
I'm wondering if the name chosen, Canterbury, is some sort of Canterbury Tales reference -- a diverse group of travellers? I didn't see any jokes in the names of people quoted, but I assume those are actual people associated with the different Linux distributions.
One distro to rule them all,
One distro find them,
One distro to bring them all
and in the GPL bind them!
Why can't all /. articles be this good?
I realized it's April Fools day!!!!!!!
One semi-believable story mixed in with the real stories would go a lot further than this string of obvious nonsense.
Can you show us any programs you have done, and may we try them?