I read this on the web.

Here are 15 signs that you are addicted to Linux…

1. You bring a live CD with you whenever you’ll be using a computer away from your house.
2. You subscribe to a Linux magazine such as Linux Journal, Linux Mag, or Linux Format
3. Every time a friend or relative complains about their computer being slow due to spyware, adware and viruses, you tell them to install Linux.
4. You want a Penguin for a pet.
5. You understand what the command “mv windows /dev/null” means.
6. Your home page is http://www.google.com/linux
7. You subscribe to my RSS feed.
8. You own a RTFM coffee mug.
9. You participate in System Administrator Appreciation Day.
10. You hang out on Freenode.
11. You are a member of a local Linux User Group.
12. You have installed Linux on your mom and dads computers.
13. You know the African definition of the word Ubuntu.
14. You know who Linus Torvalds is.
15. You know who Hans Reiser is, and what he is accused of.

Guilty on 9 out of 15.

10 if I substitute my "Penguin Power" coffee mug for #8. Possibly 11 depending on whose RSS is referred to in #7.

Same here, about 9, 10, maybe 11.

And would change number 5 to:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/windows-partition

Number 4!

I read about spyware on the web. That must have been what happened to my M$crosoft ME! It was slow, and then it coughed, huffed, and puffed. It would not install from cd. How could spyware do this? How do I know that I will not have any spyware on my PC when I get it to work with Linux? This Linux is new to me.

Is Linus rich like Gates?

Nope. My home page is www.linuxquestions.org/questions.

Additional sigs:
You understand what "there's no place like 127.0.0.1" means.
You under stand what "there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't" means.

Including these two sigs, I'm guilty of 11 of 17.

I could also add this:
You tell people who annoy you "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script".

Linus T. released the OS as open-source, he doesn't directly make ANY money from it, I'm sure people donate tho, either time or money. I would say it's blasphemy to use Gates and Linus in the same sentence. I would even say it's blasphemy not to use Gate$ instead of Gates, and M$, and Window$, Vi$ta, and everything that has to do with them must be branded with a $, because that's the ONLY thing they care about and will ever care about. You may find it silly, but the world is much more silly, which overrules this.

As for spyware, it is possible to get it, mostly in the form of a rootkit, in which case you should use:
http://www.chkrootkit.org/
Really, I've never gotten one, and if you follow good procedure, you won't either. Especially, do NOT run as root, have a separate account, and have a password on every account, people come from Window$ with the idea that this is a great idea. No, it's not, it's madness.

It may also be possible if you run many things through wine ... which you shouldn't be doing anyway. Run things on wine only if there aren't FLOSS replacements that are good enough.

Thank you for the comment.

What is FLOSS? My parents would always tell me to floss. I think you mean something different.

"people come from Window$ with the idea that this is a great idea."

What do they think is a great idea? Why is it not a great idea on Linux? Linux is new to me.

guilty of 1, 3, 5, 6, 12, 14

Well, for the original post, I'm guilty on 10/15 , and adding the last post from H_TeXMeX_H and bigrigdriver then... YES!!! I'm an addict!!!!

1. You bring a live CD with you whenever you’ll be using a computer away from your house.

3. Every time a friend or relative complains about their computer being slow due to spyware, adware and viruses, you tell them to install Linux.
4. You want a Penguin for a pet.
5. You understand what the command “mv windows /dev/null” means.
6. Your home page is http://www.google.com/linux

9. You participate in System Administrator Appreciation Day.(haven't yet but I just started a new SA job!)


12. You have installed Linux on your mom and dads computers. (just moms)
13. You know the African definition of the word Ubuntu.( i knew it was african... didn't know exactly what it meant)
14. You know who Linus Torvalds is.


Plus:

You type VI commands when using notepad

Linus Torvalds...? He invented Line Dancing, didn't he?

I'm guilty of 7 out of 8... I guess im getting there! lol my friend wanted to install a DVD burner software and I installed Suse 10.3 instead! now he is hooked to linux!

Free Libre Open Source Software. As you might already know, free does not mean free. Just apply for a credit card, or a loan, or download a freeware program. The word free has no business here, but it has been bastardized by politicians and businessmen and governments everywhere to attract many flies into a trap. I'm sure Stallman suggested this term of FLOSS, it's easy to remember and it stands for something which cannot be mistaken. The word 'libre' is used as it has not yet been bastardized. You can also use FOSS, whatever.

It's not a good idea on any OS. You can easily destroy your system as root or admin. Imagine a badly designed program, it could very easily ruin your system if given root privileges, one example is wine. Running a user without a password should be obvious ... I mean, I could log in too you know, right now in fact on your machine if it doesn't have a password. And other reasons too. Just make a user account. This is harder on Window$ because in order to install anything you'd have to log in and out again, or maybe there's a better way, I don't know and I don't care cuz I ain't using it ever again.

moved to general - this is where funnies belong.

You know yor a linux addict when aften years of using microsoft products you wince in dsicust every time some one in the same room mentions that they spent an inorinate some of money upon a new computer just to run Windows Vista (FISTA).