Jesux is a Bad Pun

Lots and lots of Slashdot readers have either sent in this ZDNet article or a direct link to the Jesux homepage." It's a hoax, folks. Think: if you were a Christian believer, would you name your Linux distribution something so close to "Jesus Sucks?" The concept isn't even original; variations on this theme have been floating around the Net for years because of Unix and its "kills" and "aborts" and "daemons."

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Next you'll be saying...

[Black Parrot]

...that the Eunux system for harem and whorehouse management is a hoax, too.

Lucifux

[debrain]

Lucifux : Latest hardcore fundamentalist Anti-Christ OS available!

Kill referenced in every man page.
Killall referenced in every man page.
Random thread kills. Threads scream in pain when killed.
Suicide replaces old shutdown command.
Anal probe replaces ping.
All threads given daemon privaleges.
Sporadically downloads and plays Marilyn Manson mp3's.
CD-ROM drive spins backwards.
Pornographic links hardcoded into Lynx, the only true fundamentalist browser.
Software written by heterosexuals or women will only be permitted if they are sent email informing them of their transgressions against pleasure. Mastrubration is a form of pennance.

Ok, we're all satisfied. I'm going to hell. No doubt about it. But I bed a DAMNED someone out there got a chuckle out of this parody! Extremism with extremism never works, the exception being when one extreme is humour.

Re:The Good Thing ...

[loki7]

This story ahs been floating around the net for a long time (about 6 or 7 years?):

Linda Branagan is an expert on daemons. She has a T-shirt that sports the daemon in tennis shoes that appears on the cover of the 4.3BSD manuals and The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System by S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA 1989.

She tells the following story about wearing the 4.3BSD daemon T-shirt:

Last week I walked into a local ``home style cookin' restaurant/watering hole'' in Texas to pick up a take-out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.

So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging on the walls, I was approached by two ``natives.'' These guys might just be the original Texas rednecks.

``Pardon us, ma'am. Mind if we ask you a question?''
Well, people keep telling me that Texans are real friendly, so I nodded.
``Are you a Satanist?''
Well, at least they didn't ask me if I liked to party.
``Uh, no, I can't say that I am.''
``Gee, ma'am. Are you sure about that?'' they asked.

I put on my biggest, brightest Dallas Cowboys cheerleader smile and said, ``No, I'm positive. The closest I've ever come to Satanism is watching Geraldo.''

``Hmmm. Interesting. See, we was just wondering why it is you have the lord of darkness on your chest there.''

I was this close to slapping one of them and causing a scene--then I stopped and noticed the shirt I happened to be wearing that day. Sure enough, it had a picture of a small, devilish-looking creature that has for some time now been associated with a certain operating system. In this particular representation, the creature was wearing sneakers.

They continued: ``See, ma'am, we don't exactly appreciate it when people show off pictures of the devil. Especially when he's lookin' so friendly.''

These idiots sounded terrifyingly serious.

Me: ``Oh, well, see, this isn't really the devil, it's just, well, it's sort of a mascot.''
Native: ``And what kind of football team has the devil as a mascot?''
Me: ``Oh, it's not a team. It's an operating--uh, a kind of computer.''

I figured that an ATM machine was about as much technology as these guys could handle, and I knew that if I so much as uttered the word ``UNIX'' I would only make things worse.

Native: ``Where does this satanical computer come from?''
Me: ``California. And there's nothing satanical about it really.''

Somewhere along the line here, the waitress noticed my predicament--but these guys probably outweighed her by 600 pounds, so all she did was look at me sympathetically and run off into the kitchen.

Native: ``Ma'am, I think you're lying. And we'd appreciate it if you'd leave the premises now.''

Fortunately, the waitress returned that very instant with my order, and they agreed that it would be okay for me to actually pay for my food before I left. While I was at the cash register, they amused themselves by talking to each other.

Native #1: ``Do you think the police know about these devil computers?''
Native #2: ``If they come from California, then the FBI oughta know about 'em.''

They escorted me to the door. I tried one last time:

``You're really blowing this all out of proportion. A lot of people use this `kind of computers.' Universities, researchers, businesses. They're actually very useful.''

Big, big, big mistake. I should have guessed at what came next.

Native: ``Does the government use these devil computers?''
Me: ``Yes.''

Another big boo-boo.

Native: ``And does the government pay for 'em? With our tax dollars?''

I decided that it was time to jump ship.

Me: ``No. Nope. Not at all. Your tax dollars never entered the picture at all. I promise. No sir, not a penny. Our good Christian congressmen would never let something like that happen. Nope. Never. Bye.''

Edited and converted to HTML by Dan Bornstein, danfuzz@milk.com.

Computers and Morality

[extrasolar]

Hoax or not, it does bring up a good issue. I used to be a Chrisitian but I never thought that God would care what I did on my computer. I think it seems plausable that God would overlook the creations of His creations. The commandments say "Thou shall not kill" but does that include inanimate processes? What if we develop artificial intelligence? Would it be immoral to kill such a process?

And is it sin to view porn on the internet? Is that akin to adultery for those who are married? And is saying His name in vain into xterm wrong? what if you said it in a shell script with an infinite loop?

Is worshipping RMS^H^H^HUnix against the First Commandment?

I am mostly serious about this. I have never thought that religion and computers have anything to do with each other. But you never know. Anyone know of a way to sin using a computer?

Whatever the answer, the Ten Commandments are long overdue for a revision.

Note: I am not trying to be sacro-religious either. I don't mean to offend anyone, it is just my curiousity gets the best of me.

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Waiting for Jesux release version 2

[plopez]

Due out any minute now. Be ready!

:)

They forgot these

[Imperator]

init now performs random acts of niceness

kernel periodically sends GOSPEL messages, which appear on all ttys by default

/home subdivided by denomination

alias burn-at-stake='rpm -e --force --nodeps'

functions of root now split into 3 accounts

Biblical quotes in /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /etc/motd, and similar places

xearth replaced by xheaven and xhell

random numbers a a form of gambling, so /dev/random and /dev/urandom are symlinked to /dev/zero

CGAN -- Christian Gospel Anti-heretic Network

serpents are sinful; python will not ship default with distribution, neither will anaconda be used as the installer

Other modifications

[Baz Quux]

I'm sure they'll get around to these, in addition to the other revisions they mentioned:

fsck(8) -- becomes know(8), as in the biblical sense: "And the user did know(8) his partition, and thus begat lost+found."

gcc(1) -- becomes jhc(1). "JHC, how much longer is this compile going to take?!?!" (Must be asked sincerely to avoid blasphemy.)

more(1) -- wholly (pardon the pun) replaced with less(1), the opposite of more, because it is selfish to want more.

true(1) -- can only return a value of 0.

expect -- replaced with "prophesize", a lesser known subset of tcl.

C++ programs are now said to be abject-oriented, as they will only compile and run after sufficient subjugation and hours of blood-soaked sweat inducing prayer (which is not entirely unique to this distribution).

Christmas -- is always referred to as Xmas (see /usr/X11R6/bin/Xmas).

guile -- is an immoral trait, and thus is removed from the distribution.

help -- available to all unsaved souls who ask. See also: save, gideon.

nice(1) -- applied to all user functions, because Jesux brothers should all be nice to one another.

/etc/HOSTNAME -- renamed to /etc/HEAVENLYHOSTNAME.

MySQL(1) -- is now HisSQL(1), because after all, He created it, and all of us who use it, and it is His. Sinners on the system are relegated to TransGresSQL, PostGres' replacement.

nslookup(8) -- replaced with nsbowyourheads(8).

and finally...

root -- becomes God, obviously. "God, root, what is difference?" -- Pitr 0:0

Whether these were funny or not, I blame it all on the Mountain Dew.
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A proposal: the Slashdot Media Dunce Award.

[Apuleius]

This could be a new section (with dunce cap icon) of links to media articles whose authors show a severe lack of clue. (The purpose of making it a section would be so that people could cross it out of their preferences. Not everyone wants to read all about how Jesse Berst needs another harshing.)

What this would accomplish would be to institutionalize the capacity of Slashdot to review and respond to mainstream media articles, in a way that does not involve floods of email flames toward the Dunce Cap candidate.

The reason I am advocating this is shown well by

this Forbes story. This can harness Slashdot's vitriol to good use: whipping the media into shape. There could be a poll with every story (weighted by /. Karma, maybe).

Allright, enough punting. Back to work.