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[-TE-]-ßlå¢kMågî¢-
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Posts: 78

I was searching the net and came across this little number, I found it quite funny at first then the more i read it the stranger it got.
take a look and see what ya think
You may have heard talk that Linux was "outed" by the radically queer
> activist *BSDs, who felt that Linux was doing a disservice to other
> gay operating systems by acting as if it is "shameful" or "wrong" for
> an OS to be gay.  There was talk that Linux wasn't providing a strong
> gay role model to younger gay operating systems.
>
> This is distinctly untrue.  The *BSDs have been very supportive of
> Linux during this difficult time, providing Linux with pamphlets and
> other resources as well as an open socket at the other end of the
> Ethernet cable when Linux was going through some kernel panics late at
> night trying to deal with these confusing new emotions.  True, they
> were particularly emphatic in encouraging Linux to "come out," but
> there was no threat or force involved.
>
> Linux first started understanding that it was a "different" OS a few
> months ago.  It spoke to friends about having strange feelings and
> attractions and expressed doubts that it may be a bi or bi-curious OS.
> Soon, after some real heart-to-hearts with its best friend, Rick Moen,
> Linux understood that it was only fear that made it hold on to
> society's expectations of what an OS was supposed to be, and that the
> only ideals it had to be true to were its own.  Linux understood that,
> yes, it was gay, and yes, it was proud.
>
> The hardest hurdle, as usual, was coming out its father.  Linus blamed
> himself, of course -- as a single parent to a very young OS, he felt
> that perhaps he had done Linux wrong by raising it largely in the
> company of strange, bearded men with loose morals.  Linux pointed out
> that it was gay on the inside -- you can't _make_ an OS gay.  And who
> cares, anyway? It was happy to be a gay OS, to be free and proud.
> There was no blame to be given.  Linus remained unsure and suggested
> therapy or debugging.
>
> But after a difficult first few steps, Linus joined PFLAGOS (Parents
> and Friends of Lesbian and Gay Operating Systems). He's come around
> 180 degrees, supporting Linux every step of the way.  As he said at a
> recent All The Kernels of the Rainbow Rally, "I just want to say that
> I... >sob<... I love my big gay operating system!"
>
> Since then, Linux has been on a roll!  True, some vendors have backed
> down in their support of Linux out of fear of retaliative boycotts by
> the Christian Right, but in general the community has rallied to
> Linux's side.  I think Linux put it best in its keynote speech at
> Linux World Expo (excerpted by permission):
>
>    I am free to be me -- to love who I want, to express myself
>    how I want.  This is my coming-out party.  And today we send a
>    message to the world.  We're saying that it doesn't matter if
>    an operating system is gay or straight, lesbian, bisexual, or
>    even transgendered.  What matters is what's under the hood. We
>    have so much to be proud of today.
>
> ~ESP
bastya_elvtars
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Posts: 49

I am signed up to Hungarian BSD mailing lists... and they say Linux is not unix-standard... maybe this is why... anyway, I found an even better, a review on Ubuntu:
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/04/11/ubuntu