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| AIR (2) | Almost Infuriating Redhat |
Sean Lamb (Air was the codename for Mandrake Linux 7.0) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| APOLLO | Affordably Purchase Our Lovely Linux Offering |
Sean Lamb (Apollo was the code name for RedHat Linux 5.2) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| BEOWULF | Big Electronic Organisms Will Use Linux, Fool |
Sean Lamb (who envies the computing power of the big Beowulf clusters that always seem to take on a life of their own) |
| BILTMORE | Because It's Linux, They Might Open Roughly Everything |
Sean Lamb (Biltmore was the code name for RedHat Linux 4.2) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| CD-ROM (2) | Can't Download - Rate 'Orribly Mired |
Gavin Lambert - I periodically try to download a Linux install CD (mostly out of curiosity), but as I've only got a 56k connection it takes too long :( |
| DARL | Doesn't Actually Run Linux |
Sean Lamb (Referring to Darl McBride, the CEO of SCO) Names:Famous people |
| DEBIAN | Debian Exists Because It's Altogether Nicer. |
Criggie (Debian is a linux distribution) |
| DOLPHIN | Do Other Linuxes Pursue Human Interface Niceties? |
Sean Lamb (Dolphin was the code name for Mandrake Linux 9.0; Mandrake has been known as the "user-friendly" Linux) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| ENIGMA | Every New Iteration Generates More Animosity |
Sean Lamb (Enigma was the code name for RedHat Linux 7.2) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| GUICIDE (2) | Gnome User Intentionally Caused Its Death, Evidently. |
Angela Brett (Gnome is a Linux GUI) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| GURU (2) | Geek Using Real Unix |
Angela Brett, when the installers at a Linux installfest were called gurus. |
| HEDWIG | He'll Eventually Destroy Windows, It's Guaranteed |
Sean Lamb (Hedwig was the code name for RedHat Linux 6.0) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| HURRICANE | Hurry Up Redhat, Redmond Is Continuing Adding New Enhancements |
Sean Lamb (Hurricane was the code name for RedHat Linux 5.0) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| IBOOK (5) | It's Broken, Obviously... Omitted Konsole! |
Steve Keate, summarising the reaction of a KDE (http://www.kde.org) user to an iBook. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| KOPERNICUS | Kde Out-Performs Everything Rendering New Internet Connections Useful, Surely |
Sean Lamb (Kopernicus was the code name for KDE version 2.0) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| LAPTOP (4) | Linux And Portables - There's Often Problems. |
Angela Brett (I know a few people who've had Linux laptops and they seem to have problems with the power management.) |
| LINUS TORVALDS | Let's Invent New Unix System, To Overthrow Redmond's Vacuuming All Licenses & Decent Software |
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| LINUX | Lovely... If Not Using Xwindows! |
Angela Brett |
| LINUX (2) | 'Life'less Incurable Nerds Use Xchat |
Angela Brett |
| NOVELL | Now Our Venture Entirely Loves Linux |
Sean Lamb (Novell announced that it will purchase SuSE Linux for (US)$210M on Nov 4 2003) Commerce:Companies |
| RAWHIDE | Redhat's Always Working Hard In Developing Enhancements |
Sean Lamb (Rawhide is the code name for RedHat's unstable development tree) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| RED HAT (2) | Reliable, Easy, Defensible Hardware Access Technology |
Jeff Anonymous, speaking of the Linux distribution. |
| SHRIKE | Stopping Handholding, Redhat Is Killing Enterprises |
Sean Lamb (Shrike was the code name for RedHat 9.0 for which RedHat ended technical and upgrade support mere months after its release) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| SID | Silly, It's Debian! |
Sean Lamb (Sid is the code name for Debian's unstable development tree of it's fabled Linux distribution) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| SID (2) | Stability Is Debian |
Sean Lamb Names:Code Names:Linux |
| SID (3) | Still In Development |
Sean Lamb Names:Code Names:Linux |
| SUSE | Seems Useless - Stumps Everyone! |
Angela Brett, on hearing about SuSE Linux. |
| USL | Uneducated Sco Lackeys |
Sean Lamb (SCO, which is suing IBM over code they claim to have copied from Unix into Linux, filed for the Unix Systems Laboratories trademark). Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| USL (2) | Using Stupid Lawyers |
Sean Lamb (SCO, which is suing IBM over code they claim to have copied from Unix into Linux, filed for the Unix Systems Laboratories trademark). Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| XFREE (2) | X From Redhat Expires Easily |
Jeff Anonymous |
| YARROW | Yet Another Redhat Release Of Wonder |
Sean Lamb (Yarrow was the codename for RedHat's Fedora Core Linux 1.0) Names:Code Names:Linux |
| YAST | You Are Susefied Today |
Sean Lamb (YaST really means Yet Another Setup Tool, which is used to install SuSE Linux) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |