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Back in the 80386 days there was one model of BIOS that would print ‘CPU not found’ if you had your CRT monitor and VGA videocard plugged in.

Ask the guy to hold down the wolves while I teach them how to install Debian

It’s false that you cannot sell GPL-licensed work.

Busybox was quickly replaced by BSD-licensed Toybox everywhere for that exact reason.

Copyleft licenses (like the Gnu General Public License) mandate that all derivative works remain free.

This is false. It’s perfectly legal to take GPL-licensed work, modify it, and sell it. As long as the work itself does not reach the general public, you don’t need to release it’s source code to the public (e.g. your work for the military, you take money for your work, and provide source code to them, but not release it publicly).

The first one is a fancy CPU warmer. The second one will play loud noise through your headphones, and setsid will make sure you can’t stop it with Ctrl-C.

There was a thread about console commands seen in movies or TV, when the actors need to do some ‘hacking’ on camera. And the most common one was just installing updates to your Linux distribution of choice.

My go-to joke is

cat /dev/urandom | pxz | grep haxx

Or if you want to be nasty

setsid sh -c 'cat /dev/urandom | pacat -p'

As for puns, less command does the same thing as more on MS-DOS.

tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz

I’ve used FreeBSD for about a month in 2005, and still can’t stop talking about it.

Debian

You can kinda sorta run Linux userspace on Android, with a bit of compatibility layer.

cat /dev/urandom | pxz | pacat

I prefer my CPU heating and my speakers blasting noise.

Ctrl+Shift+K

Clears the text in the current tab and resets the terminal

Your Android phone runs Linux.

Dun dun dun.

I would expect some Toy Story character, but it seems that we really only have the pink swirl as a mascot. Thank Lord it does not have the eyes as Clippy does

Gentoo brings back that OG build-everything-from-source experience.

Given that I’ve installed it around 2006 from a CD disk, they’ve fixed a lot of things since then.

It was the time when spending a week to just launch some graphical applications was something to boast about. Some would think people even made it harder on purpose to filter out Windows normies. Thankfully, sanity prevailed, after those same hax0r kids went to high-paying engineering jobs and had to deliver a working product on a fixed deadline. Now you insert your USB drive, press Next - Next - Next - Root password - Reboot, and have your FreeBSD installation working out of the box and ready to use in 20 minutes. Boring!

I was a FreeBSD user once, for around three months.

I’ve learned everything about startx command that is known to mankind.

Simply install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store.

Yeah, it’s called AMD DASH, but it’s available only on select CPUs, unlike Intel’s variant.

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/security-manageability

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