2004: Year of the Penguin? 427
houseofmore writes "The Toronto star suggests that things are looking good for the Linux desktop this year as more heavy weight commercial vendors get behind it, including HP, Novell, IBM, Sun and... Walmart. It also mentions Red Hat's plan to offer a new corporate desktop edition of their enterprise desktop sometime this year. The article states that more and more companies are considering (and) switching to Linux for their desktop due to expensive Windows licensing fees and high-profile security vulnerabilities."
Will it ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
4/2003: "2003: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2002: "2002: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2001: "2001: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/2000: "2000: The Year of the Penguin?"
4/1999: "1999: The Year of the Penguin?"
Sounds Familiar (Score:5, Funny)
I hope it does happen this year though.
That's a new one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Will it ever end? (Score:4, Funny)
Duck like penguin??? (Score:2, Funny)
I've heard this since about 1997 or so. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Will it ever end? (Score:3, Funny)
1/4/2004: "2004: The Year of the Penguin?"
1/4/2003: "2003: The Year of the Penguin?"
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File names in Linux (Score:2, Funny)
I_dont_want_to_change_them_all_to_them.
Re:Check this out - very cool IBM Ad for Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Dupe! (Score:1, Funny)
2003: Year of the Penguin?
2002: Year of the Penguin?
2001: Year of the Penguin?
2000: Year of the Penguin?
1999: Year of the Penguin?
1998: Year of the Penguin?
Re:Check this out - very cool IBM Ad for Linux (Score:2, Funny)
so, logically... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Will it ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot posts it every month
Slashdot wins!
Re:No mention of SCO... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Will it ever end? (Score:5, Funny)
2000 was also the Year Of The Penguin, but that turned out to be a bad thing [216.239.51.104]...
Laura Kiddio and Yankme release new study... (Score:3, Funny)
In a very serious study with no sillyness whatsoever, once factoring in the high cost of download and installing Debian Linux, the TCO is actually 327$, compared to Microsoft's low low $199 price tag.
I thought the "Year of Linux" was 2003 (Score:4, Funny)
Easy pseudocode formule (Score:2, Funny)
if current_year = year_of_penguin then repost_same_article();
I'll try my "year of linux" joke again (Score:4, Funny)
This is a friendly note from the law office of Bezos & McBride (no relation, really) in representation of the SCO Corporation. SCO would like to inform you that it holds the trademark to the term "Year of Linux." Please cease and desist the use of the term without acknowledgement of the trademark. If you wish to continue using this term, please contact SCO to discuss licensing terms.
Thanks you,
Law Office of Bezos & McBride
D. McBride
J. Bezos
How to tell if it's "The Year of the Penguin" (Score:5, Funny)
If it is January through May: this year
If it is June through December: next year
Try it for yourself and you too may become an industry expert and visionary.
[warning: this post contains high degrees of sarcasm and may not be suitable for all readers]
Re:Training Costs (Score:3, Funny)
Luser: I want to suck your dick.
int main {} (Score:2, Funny)
{
while ( $date->year slashdot.post_story( $date->year + " is the year of the Penguin.");
}
I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seriously... (Score:1, Funny)