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Suicide Linux (2009)

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Re: Suicide Linux (2009)

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> Perhaps rm -rf / should be replaced with something with more verbose flags set. That way, when you run a bad command, you are told immediately that things are being deleted This gives me an idea: Hell Linux. In Hell Linux, the operating system does its best to pretend that nothing is wrong, so it takes you as long as possible to realize that you've made a mistake. Commands ignore all unrecognized flags. In shell sc…

> the operating system does its best to pretend that nothing is wrong, so it takes you as long as possible to realize that you've made a mistake

Aka “the PHP design philosophy”?

Re: Suicide Linux (2009)

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post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is already what happens. Just like the web (W3C?) was a front for microsoft taking over from Netscape, and now Google taking over from everyone else, the linux foundation et al are just fronts for Google et al to have whatever they want on the kernel and to prevent any and all GPL3 "corruption" of their take-take-take business practices. GNU/Linux is old news, everyone runs BIGCORP/Linux today. You probably have…

zsh is older than you think.

Apple switching to it on the day Bash announce new version to be GPLv3 is very recent.
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