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Poll
Slackware ?
No 5%
Never in a million years 5%
Not even with a 10 foot barge pole 5%
Not even if you attached electrodes to my genitals and forced me to listen to Korn & Linkin Bizkit 35%
Yes, I am a socially retarded fourteen year old, basement dwelling latent homosexual with a superiority complex. 47%

Votes: 34

 Attention! Slashdot retards and K5 wankers read this now!

 Author:  Topic:  Posted:
Jun 19, 2002
 Comments:
There is a new release of your shitty 30-year old illegal hackers toy operating system out now.
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Please go away, "burn" yourself an "ISO" and hopefully destroy your PC so you cannot post your garbage here for a few weeks.

Do it now. That new "distro" won't be new forever. Be the first in your basement...

       
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poll correction: (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by momocrome on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 07:39:08 AM PST
I believe it is called 'Slim Biskit' thx

Correction (none / 0) (#5)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 10:26:30 AM PST
It's Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, thank you very much.

 
Illegal? (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 09:39:42 AM PST
I still don't understand...how is it illegal?

Because, (1.00 / 1) (#3)
by mfk on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 09:52:46 AM PST
If you load ANY other operating system than the one your PC originally came with, that's illegal. Since this is what Linux was designed to do - replace Microsoft Windows - it is illegal. You have broken your End User License Agreement, which you AGREED to automatically by using your computer.

I agree completely with dmg. Slackware is the perfect distro for the discriminating elitist Kuro5hin wanker or ignorant Slashbot. Its incomprehensible packaging system, coupled with its blatant disregard for the Linux Standards Base, ensure hours of fun fucking around with scripts that look in /etc to see the symlink to /bin/opt or whatever.


funny... (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 10:19:42 AM PST
I don't remember seeing that in my copy of EULA.

I don't think Linux was designed to replace Windows, but if it does, so what? Best tool for the job, I'd say (Linux is shitty for the desktop, but fine for a lot of server applications, but that's just my opinion).

Since your statement about the EULA is incorrect, no one has yet explained to me why Linux is illegal.

Nice troll (pretty much the point of adequacy.org, no?).

Trolling (none / 0) (#19)
by Washington Irving on Sat Jun 22nd, 2002 at 06:25:51 PM PST
You should note, when you post a comment you get the message, "Trolling is not tolerated here. Any comment may be deleted by a site admin, and all trolls will be deleted. This is your fair warning."

So I think you need to back up your claim with some examples.

-- Irving, Washington

 
Heh. (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 10:37:38 AM PST
"If you load ANY other operating system than the one your PC originally came with, that's illegal."

That's a good one.

Because once I purchase some hardware, some corporation has the right to tell me how I can use it.

Ford tells me I can't speed in my Mustang.

GE tells me I can't store junk food in my fridge.

 
What if you built your own computer? (none / 0) (#7)
by Narcissus on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 10:51:35 AM PST
You're a fucking idiot. Don't comment on shit you don't understand please. And nowhere in all my Windows installation CDs does it say I cannot have it installed simultaneously with another OS.


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Ok, who picked the flower???

 
My PC didn't come with an operating system. (none / 0) (#13)
by gordonjcp on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 05:20:37 PM PST
So, does that mean that if I'd installed Windows on it, then overwriting the diagnostics boot sector on the brand-new, fresh-from-the-antistat-bag hard disk was illegal? I've never replaced Windows with Linux on *any* computer.

Oh, and what if your PC comes with an operating system other than Windows, like the IBM and Compaq servers that come with Linux installed on them?

 
dmg I am very disappointed (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by Narcissus on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 11:00:34 AM PST
I would think at least you would keep from blind character bashing.

I happen to like linux but I am neither a 14 year old retard nor a homo nor do I live in my basement (hell I don't even have a basement I live on solid limestone).

I do have a superiority complex though, because I've seen many people and the world is inumerably stupid.


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Ok, who picked the flower???

Boy, did that ever go over your head. (5.00 / 1) (#9)
by RobotSlave on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 11:51:54 AM PST
I love you. You claim to suffer from a superiority complex, and then immediately prove it by not only misspelling but failing to correctly use the word "innumerably."


© 2002, RobotSlave. You may not reproduce this material, in whole or in part, without written permission of the owner.

Here, I'll help. (none / 0) (#10)
by because it isnt on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 01:50:35 PM PST
You forgot to add a self-referential link to your Bog-Standard Adequacy Comment™.
adequacy.org -- because it isn't

Welcome back, Mr. Isn't! (none / 0) (#11)
by RobotSlave on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 02:14:49 PM PST
We've missed you terribly!


© 2002, RobotSlave. You may not reproduce this material, in whole or in part, without written permission of the owner.

Now that's more like it. (none / 0) (#12)
by because it isnt on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 03:45:21 PM PST
Mwah! Missed you too, sweetie!
adequacy.org -- because it isn't

 
dmg reminds me of iat (1.00 / 1) (#14)
by detikon on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 08:28:23 PM PST
You know how they all think that Slackware is just like a version name rather than a distro name. Kinda like Windows 95, 98, Me, etc.

"Slackware 8.1 the newest version of Linux."

Uhh, nope. The newswest version of Slackware.

Just goes to show you the level of intelligence and maturity of an MCSE.




Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script.

 
Slackware? *pfft* So 1998! (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous Reader on Wed Jun 19th, 2002 at 09:07:00 PM PST
I thought all the 1337 kidz wif da ph4t skillz were hax0ring wif source-based distros this yea. Package installers are for Granny, RPM is dying, and all that.

Whatever, Mac0SX is gonna own all those punks in about 2 years. You watch.

 
Yah huh.... (none / 0) (#18)
by HatBot on Thu Jun 20th, 2002 at 12:44:11 PM PST
putting a new OS on your computer if it currently has one installed (thus overwritting your current OS) is by no means illegal. The only thing that it may do is void a service agreement in you EULA (which i believe is what he was trying to get at but is too retarded to sufficiently type out his thought process). But going back to the voiding of the service agreement, if you upgraded to say Linux you would a) more than likely not even need service or tech support because linux is acctually a stable OS and b) could get free tech support from user groups and the like.

 

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