A shaggy dog story?

[Frank Shute]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:37:19PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> I took SWMBO's car in today to have a couple of new tyres fitted. Whilst 
> I was waiting for it, a young lady brought her car in for new tyres as 
> well and she had her dog with her.
> 
> What's this got to do with FreeBSD you might wonder? Well, normally, 
> nothing, except that this dog was called Linux! I kid you not; I thought 
> I'd misheard her the first time she called it.
> 
> Unfortunately she didn't wait around while her car was done so I didn't 
> get the chance to enquire further. Was she a Linux user, or just like 
> the name? If she was a Linux user I would have suggeted that she tried 
> FreeBSD, but then she'd have to rename the dog Beastie (or Chuck).
> 
> I did wonder as she and the dog walked off whether she had a 
> pooper-scooper to clear up all it's core dumps ;-)

If the dog's called Linux it must be a mongrel ;)

I also hope Stallman doesn't meet this owner and her dog or he'd demand
that she change it's name to GNU/Linux and some unpleasantness might
ensue.

-- 

 Frank 

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