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Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"

Posted by samzenpus on from the same-great-taste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds decided to change the code name for Linux 3.11 and even submitted an alternate Tux Logo. Heise reports: 'For this release, Linus Torvalds changed the code name from "Unicycling Gorilla" to "Linux for Workgroups" and modified the logo that some systems display when booting: it now depicts a Tux holding a flag with a symbol that is reminiscent of the logo of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which was released in 1993.'"

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  1. So now Linux is only 20 years behind windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to see Linux 95. The Linux market will explode when that comes out.

    1. Re:So now Linux is only 20 years behind windows? by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 3, Funny

      Windows95 was really just a GUI running on top of DOS. Download GNOME and you've got it already!

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    2. Re:So now Linux is only 20 years behind windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Windows95 was really just a GUI running on top of DOS. Download GNOME and you've got it already!

      Compared to Gnome, Windows95 is lightweight and responsive.

    3. Re:So now Linux is only 20 years behind windows? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes. Windows 95 was by far the lightest weight and most responsive of Operating systems. Unfortunatly, every other response was a blue screen...

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  2. Hilarious by Arker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good to see Linus still has a sense of humor.

    I suppose shipping intentionally buggy IPX drivers with it might be taking the joke too far though.

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    1. Re:Hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      They can always implement NetBEUI and watch as we one by one shoot ourselves.

  3. Finally by etash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux is catching up with windows. 20 more years to go! yay!

  4. How many get the reference by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 3, Funny

    without reading TFA.
    get off my lawn. ha

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  5. Re:what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    GUN/Linux

    Is that the NRA distribution?

  6. Re:Too bad they mucked with the logo by richpoore · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is funny, and I know funny. I'm a clownfish.

  7. Available on floppies? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone have a spare Disk 8? Mine is corrupted.

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  8. Re:But will Microsoft sue? by Belial6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they shouldn't just smirk. They should throw Linux a mock Bar Mitzvah. Send the entire development team pens as gifts and welcome them out of childhood.

  9. Re:what? by Dracos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only infinite resursion jokes never end.