why is alot of Linux programs named after drinks? and stuff that goes wtih drinks.
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Distribution: ALT linux 2.4 Master, and Fendora 5, and I have a damn small linux Live CD, and ubutu sever edition
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why is alot of Linux programs named after drinks? and stuff that goes wtih drinks.
ITs really werid, there are programs named wine, Kaffine, ETC. what is with naming programs after drinks? does someone just say, imgoing to make a program for linux and name it after a drink or somthing to do with drinks? or is it a worldwide conspericy that I dont know about linux programmers?
Well, those are the only ones I can think of off hand, but I don't know. Wine is actually a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator (WINE). The real conspiracy is: too many recursive acronyms in Linux (i.e. GNU == GNU is Not UNIX).
The only thing I notice are programs beginning with K instead of some other letter, Kover (cover), Kaffeine (Caffeine), k3b even? kde? lol.
kwrite, kwikdisk, kcalc, konsole, konqueror, and the list just goes on and on and on.
All the applications that start with k do that to imply they are written with the KDE framwork. You'll also find a lot of applications that start with a g which typically use the Gnome/GTK framework.
I think is a really good thing starting apps with K or G, so you know beforehand for what franework are written some programs, and wich tools/libraries you're gonna need if you want to use them. Plus, it gives Linux an humor touch non of the other OSs have
maybe that's what is appealing about linux. I certainly don't mean this in a bad way, and sorry if you think this, but this is how i see it.
Windows seems to be this professional, sort of serious operating system. The dog in the search section throws me off some on this "serious os", but rather "cute" if you can call it that.
Linux seems like an operating system made by some guy who may be in a band, a biker, some hip down to earth sort of guy that finds the fun in programming things his way. Playing a game like lbreakout2 and hearing words like "damnit" and "very good" feels quite laid back and easy going. It's not something you'd really hear in other games, like the classic superbreakout. It just seems more laid back, yet still serious, being you need applications to work.
maybe that's what is appealing about linux. I certainly don't mean this in a bad way, and sorry if you think this, but this is how i see it.
Windows seems to be this professional, sort of serious operating system. The dog in the search section throws me off some on this "serious os", but rather "cute" if you can call it that.
Linux seems like an operating system made by some guy who may be in a band, a biker, some hip down to earth sort of guy that finds the fun in programming things his way. Playing a game like lbreakout2 and hearing words like "damnit" and "very good" feels quite laid back and easy going. It's not something you'd really hear in other games, like the classic superbreakout. It just seems more laid back, yet still serious, being you need applications to work.
May be a bad analogy, but it's like this:
Microsoft: white collar
linux: blue collar
one is more strict, serious, and the other is fun and down to earth.
I agree. I love linux for being linux, how it looks, the applications, what you get for so little.
If Windows and linux were both free, and windows had the applications that linux has, but their own layouts were the same, I would still use linux.
I tossed out windows as a matter of fact, and I don't miss it, nor regret it.
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