Re: Super Kernel Sunday!

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On 2/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:

In a widely anticipated move, Linux "headcase" Torvalds today announced
the immediate availability of the most advanced Linux kernel to date,
version 2.6.20.

Before downloading the actual new kernel, most avid kernel hackers have
been involved in a 2-hour pre-kernel-compilation count-down, with some
even spending the preceding week doing typing exercises and reciting PI
to a thousand decimal places.

The half-time entertainment is provided by randomly inserted trivial
syntax errors that nerds are expected to fix at home before completing
the compile, but most people actually seem to mostly enjoy watching the
compile warnings, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, scroll past.

As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on
Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd'
constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country
sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".

Walter was immediately attacked for his racist and insensitive remarks
by Geeks without Borders representative Marilyn vos Savant, who pointed
out that not all of their members are either pasty nor white.  "Some of
them even shower!" she added, claiming that the constant stereotyping
hurts nerds' standing in society.

Geeks outside the US were just confused about the whole issue, and were
heard wondering what the big hoopla was all about. Some of the more
culturally aware of them were heard snickering about balls that weren't
even round.

Ha. And you wouldn't have thought there was someone who

- was born and raised and lives in old europe
- builds and tests 100+ kernels a year
- has already built 2.6.20

[asuardi@sandman ~]$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.20 (asuardi@sandman) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105
(Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 Sun Feb 4 20:41:13 CET 2007

...because...

there's the SUPERBOWL to watch in front of a 32" LCD screen !!

(yes, I took tomorrow off work of course ;)

--alessandro

"but I thought that I should let you know
 the things that I don't always show
 might not be worth the time it took"

    (Steve Wynn, 'If My Life Was An Open Book')
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