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SUSE Shares Linux-Themed Music Video Parodies (itwire.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader troublemaker_23 quotes ITWire: German Linux company SUSE Linux is well-known for its Linux and other open source solutions. It is also known for producing videos for geeks and debuting them at its annual SUSECon conference. This year, in Prague, was no different. The company, which marked its 25th year on 2 September, came up with two videos, one to mark the occasion and the other all about Linux and open source. Both videos are parodies of well-known songs: the video Linus Said is based on "Momma Said", while 25 Years is a parody of "7 Years". Some of the lyrics in both SUSE videos would be meaningless to the average person -- but every word will ring a bell, sometimes a very poignant one, with geeks. And that's the primary audience it targets.
The article embeds both videos -- and also links to the music videos they're parodying. And it includes links to SUSE's two previous annual music video parodies -- Uptime Funk (based on Bruno Mars' blockbuster hit "Uptown Funk"), and Can't Stop the SUSE, a parody of Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling".

28 comments

  1. Naah, keep coding by Delifisek · · Score: 1

    Your lyrics sucks. It was suppose to rap song, not a man page.

    Keep coding...

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    1. Re:Naah, keep coding by Ferocitus · · Score: 1

      The BossHoss are more suitable for a man page...
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    2. Re:Naah, keep coding by Ferocitus · · Score: 1

      Beware though, this one would not be appropriate.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    3. Re:Naah, keep coding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here's one written about BeauHD.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyv2pTGnaoM

    4. Re:Naah, keep coding by GayAnalSex · · Score: -1

      Try Chinese software!
      https://youtu.be/-ncwCETyQlk

  2. More fun with Linux by deviated_prevert · · Score: 2

    My boss got a kick out of this one.What was more fun though was running this one in stand alone flash in full screen on Linux after my boss asked to borrow my laptop a few years ago. He actually thought that my copy of windows had been hacked. Funny as hell when I had to come over and get him out of it and explain that he was not in a windows environment. He has not borrowed my laptop since but always asks for me for all his personal IT setup.

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    1. Re:More fun with Linux by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 1

      Can you post those videos in more Linux-friendly formats? Flash is so, like, 1999.

      [rummaging around an old bin of floppy diskettes to find a Flash player to run in Wine]

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    2. Re:More fun with Linux by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

      That's the lamest attempt at a troll I've seen in some time.

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    3. Re:More fun with Linux by deviated_prevert · · Score: 1
      I run flash and mp4 on linux no problem. Just use the stand alone adobe .so running from /home instead of installing flash to /usr. Naturally you are running a binary that you did not compile yourself but these days most do not even know how to use gcc anymore so who gives a shit anyway?

      You can also still force firefox to use the flash.so as a preference. Don't run it in Wine then you run the chance of having your .wine directory compromised with a windows flash exploit LOL. Sorry if you are that afraid of .swf files. The ability to run binaries from /home also makes it much easier to remove shit like the much hated flash .macromedia drm configurations and try shit out without touching anything other than /home. Something which some people do not quite understand it seems. But then again the purpose of show hidden files seems to be something which some here do not get either.

      This is the problem with distros like Suse and Ubuntu to an extent they try to hide how to do simple things from the user and like Microsoft target users who do not want to learn anything about system configuration or the real capabilities of Linux. Either that or obfuscate function relations so that only they can figure out WTF they did. LSB is a bit of a joke thanks to some distros. Go "con"figure I just exercised my systemDaemon.

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  3. SuSE is a U.S. company.. by pigsycyberbully · · Score: -1

    SuSE is an American company that comes with a copyright agreement which you have to accept if you wish to use it.
    OpenSuSE is a corporate backed version that benefits the SuSE version both are copyrighted by the company in the U.S. that owns it. It also had or has dealings with the Microsoft Corporation and thus was considered a black sheep among Linux users and desktop users. It is not a German product.

    I believe it was trading under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Novell owned it and then NetIQ, purchased parts of it and also Attachmate, purchase shares in it. At one time I had to use the box version supplied by Novell. I found it irritating people in the U.K. would notice immediately the date is around the wrong way even when you select your location. Also you are not allowed to use LibreOffice, even though it was set to British English, the interface and the spell checker was set to U.S. spelling. If people moved their documents over without looking spellchecker would get you in trouble...

    It was a constant struggle to correct all the mistakes that they had made.. In the U.K., the date goes like this 15/10/2017.
    And then there are the obvious things like spelling you had to delete U.S. and install en-gb. you then had to find all the U.S. parts and delete them.

    I found the product insulting and hated using it! the English are very tolerant and would say things like "oh it is Americans just copy the fix its on the list."

    1. Re: SuSE is a U.S. company.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Simply switch the regional and language settings to German and everything works fine.

    2. Re:SuSE is a U.S. company.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      SuSE is an American company that comes with a copyright agreement which you have to accept if you wish to use it.

      Wikipedia: On 27 April 2011, Novell (and SUSE) were acquired by The Attachmate Group,[4] which made SUSE an independent business unit. Later, in October 2014, the entire Attachmate Group, including SUSE, was acquired by the British firm Micro Focus International.[5] SUSE continues to operate as an independent business unit.[6]

      As an American, I always viewed it as a German distro (since it used to be) and I never see it used here (yes, I'm sure a bunch or people will now contradict me, but that doesn't change me never seeing it).

    3. Re:SuSE is a U.S. company.. by pigsycyberbully · · Score: 0

      SuSE is an American company that comes with a copyright agreement which you have to accept if you wish to use it.

      Wikipedia: On 27 April 2011, Novell (and SUSE) were acquired by The Attachmate Group,[4] which made SUSE an independent business unit. Later, in October 2014, the entire Attachmate Group, including SUSE, was acquired by the British firm Micro Focus International.[5] SUSE continues to operate as an independent business unit.[6]

      As an American, I always viewed it as a German distro (since it used to be) and I never see it used here (yes, I'm sure a bunch or people will now contradict me, but that doesn't change me never seeing it).

      On 15 September 2014, Micro Focus announced that it would acquire The Attachmate Group for US$1.2 billion in shares, which will give it ownership of the Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell, and SUSE product lines. Attachmate's parent company Wizard Parent LLC—consisting of the investment groups Elliott Management Corporation, Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Bravo, will hold a 40% stake in Micro Focus post-acquisition.[13][14]

      U.S. SuSE is an American company
      Industry Computer software
      Technology services
      Fate Acquired by The Attachmate Group (April 18, 2005)
      Founded Bellevue, Washington, United States (1981)
      Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States
      Area served Worldwide
      Key people Jeff Hawn (Chairman and CEO)
      Charles Sansbury (COO and CFO)
      Kathleen Owens (President and GM)
      Products Terminal emulator software
      Interoperability software
      Security software
      Revenue US$400 million
      Parent Micro Focus International
      Website www.attachmate.com

  4. Nice by nospam007 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a SUSE Linux-Themed Music Video Paradise.

  5. Ob shameless plug by TeknoHog · · Score: 1
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  6. Srsly? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake? I always knew there was something wrong with SuSe, but I didn't know it was this bad. If SuSe is the distro for people who listen to that garbage, it must be inherently defective

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    1. Re:Srsly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake? I always knew there was something wrong with SuSe, but I didn't know it was this bad. If SuSe is the distro for people who listen to that garbage, it must be inherently defective

      Maybe this video by the official SUSE band is more your style?

  7. Watched both, just OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I got both videos but the songs parody was not Weird Al kind of good. Tried Suse a few years back, wasn't impressed with it either.

  8. rhyme by markdavis · · Score: 2

    The lyrics don't rhyme or even flow in "Linus Said." The videography and audio is good, though; but "meh". I bet a lot of people wouldn't finish it and then skip the second....

    "25 Years" is much better! Like :) Just jump to/share that one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  9. SUSE is well known for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Selling-out to Microsoft. Never forget.

  10. Asperger's Syndrome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Linus said: perkeleen vittupää.

    And Twitler said: grab 'em by the pussy.

  11. Re:rhyme: "Linux said" is just wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The only distraction for me is pronunciation of "Linus" it should be "Linus said" not "Linux said". just my 1/100 cent.

  12. I've run Linux for 20 years - Thank You. by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow. I've been running Linux for 20 years now, first as servers and number-crunchers, and in the past ten years or so as my desktop.

    OpenSUSE is one of a few distros that has been with me a long time, and it's not virtualized, it's the foundation on my bare metal.

    Thank you to everyone who brings it to me.

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    1. Re:I've run Linux for 20 years - Thank You. by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 1

      I've been running OpenSUSE as my daily driver for 12+ years, and I've never had any significant problems with viewing Flash content.

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  13. Kimble Special Agent by future+assassin · · Score: 1

    Blast from the Macromedia Site Of the Day past https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  14. Edge to OpenBSD on the songs by ninjaz · · Score: 1

    I'll give the edge to OpenBSD on the songs (OK, OpenBSD is killing it by far).

    SLES has been a kick-ass EL distro for the past couple of years that I have used it, though. It's good to see them branching out musically, too.

  15. Not too bad... by rnturn · · Score: 2

    ...and both are way better than `The Free Software Song'.

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  16. groan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Clearly Linux has jumped the shark when this is something distro companies feel is worth their time and effort.

    Between this, and the direction RedHat&Collabora is taking desktop Linux, it may well be high time to jump ship and go BSD...