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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."
Press [A|B|X|Y] to Jason
If only this post was a bit truthful...
Mongol hordes rappelling down from hot air balloons.
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You get a whole different set of comments depending on which selections you make in the post. Awesome.
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!
If you think this distribution will replace M$, go to page 21
If you think IBM will buy this group, go to page 34
"To stop the terrorists."
It's so hard to moderate on April Fool's Day. "Case closed on Jerusalem UFO"? "World Backup Day"? Are the jokes just getting more subtle, or is the world getting ridiculous? Maybe everything should get "+1 Funny" - could be funny 'cause it was a joke and the poster didn't get it, or got it but played it straight for fun, or it could be a true story, and all the serious postings show that the posters can keep a cool head in the midst of a mad day, and the non-serious ones, such as the funnies, trolls, and the flame-baiters are trying to lighten up a serious story on a fun day.
This is too hard, I'll just go back to hitting refresh in my gmail.
I'm waiting until tomorrow, when I can get the first post-April Fools day first post.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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!
If you want to see what'll be posted here on April 2, get your Ars over to Technica.
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
Huh? Bahh, I've always been an underachiever anyway. Who needs achievements?
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