Inducing others into the trap [LWN.net]

Inducing others into the trap

Posted Mar 2, 2010 9:09 UTC (Tue) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Inducing others into the trap by lxoliva
Parent article: Linux-2.6.33-libre released

I don't know if you remember that bunch of freaks, but there used to be a gaggle of fundies who whined a lot about The Peril To Immortal Soul(tm) incurred by running any Unix in general and Linux in particular. Just think of all the daemons, and then there are horrible, horrible names of programs (kill, killall) and functions (abort())... IIRC, they even tried to do something about that - put together an exorcised distribution (i.e. one with Bad Names replaced). I _think_ they overlapped with the "slackware is teh satanism!!1!!11!!!" crowd, but I could be wrong - it's been a long time ago and I might be conflating two different sets of idiots.

And yes, I realize that your religion is different. The general feeling, OTOH...

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Inducing others into the trap

Posted Mar 2, 2010 13:58 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

IIRC 'Jesux' was a joke originated when the fundies started one of their periodic bookburning runs against something harmless (Harry Potter? something like that), trying to imagine what they might do if they realized how many daemons and zombies and SIGABRTs there are in Unix. I doubt they'd actually waste their time with something so marginal and, well, geeky. (But their lunacy passes all bounds, so maybe they really *did* go ahead and complain about it.)

Inducing others into the trap

Posted Mar 4, 2010 11:05 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

*Future Change Warning:* Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program.

From the glibc manual, hehe ;)