Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"

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.'"

Comments

Re:But will Microsoft sue?

[Trepidity]

It's pretty clearly a parody, not a trademark misuse that could cause confusion in the marketplace.

Re:what?

[pipatron]

It's actually Eric Raymond's own distro: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gun-linux

Two different flags

[tepples]

Windows 7 uses the Windows XP flag, not the different flag used for Windows 3.1 through Windows 2000. The XP flag has two curves in it and no dots; the Windows 3.1 flag has one curve in the flag and one curve in the dots.

Godwin's law anyone?

Re:Can't possibly be true

[verbatim]

Considering it's open source, it's not terribly difficult to verify the veracity of the article.

https://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv3.x%2Ftesting%2Fpatch-3.11-rc1.xz;z=367

Re:ooh! so it now has SOCKETS!

[NJRoadfan]

TCP/IP didn't ship with Windows for Workgroups. It was a separate installation.

Re:what?

[Silvrmane]

Sorta. It "boots" to running a startup script that executes a series of CLI commands (to mount various directories as aliases and to move some critical libraries to a RAM disk) before (usually) ending in a call to LoadWB, which prompts the system to load up the graphical workbench. When I had an Amiga I almost always left that step off my startup script because I did my work from, more often than not, the CLI, not the clumsy Workbench.