Geeky Funny Pictures (Read 88275 times)

Now, if that was Bill Gates wearing only painted Windows Vista logos we could have a good laugh along the lines of "but the Emperor's not wearing any clothes!"

tomtom · October 29, 2009, 09:34:36 am

great find!

Jaspersharpe · October 29, 2009, 10:09:50 am

Slackers' Halloween offering:

Jaspersharpe · October 29, 2009, 10:17:54 am

New wallpaper?

http://www.linuxscrew.com/2007/10/01/sexy-wallpapers-for-ubuntu-linux/

Tris · October 29, 2009, 10:21:44 am

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on October 29, 2009, 10:17:54 am

New wallpaper?

Someone should point out that it is not a good idea to suck syringes..

slackline · October 29, 2009, 10:47:04 am

Gentoo man myself...

(Sorry too lazy to resize)

Jim · October 29, 2009, 10:48:51 am

are you trying to suggest that a linux install causes your cpu to run too hot?

slackline · October 29, 2009, 11:02:44 am

Quote from: Jim on October 29, 2009, 10:48:51 am

are you trying to suggest that a linux install causes your cpu to run too hot?

No, not at all.

Gentoo, my preferred distro, is a source based distribution, so every single piece of software that I install is compiled on my computer from source. This means that the CPU is used heavily, it doesn't ever over heat though.

This is in contrast to Ubuntu (i.e. Debian based) family where they are binary distributions. The packages are compiled by someone at Ubuntu HQ and stuck on a server, when you update you download this pre-compiled binary and install it to your system.

Other source based distros include Slackware, Linux From Scartch, Arch Linux.

Other binary distributions include Fedora, CentOS, SuSE.

Horses for courses though. I like the fine grain control of source based distros as it means I don't have bloated binaries with features I don't use. For example I can't stand the KDE desktop, just too cartoony for me, so I set a USE="-kde" flag that means that no package will ever be built with KDE support. Another example would be enabling USE="php" when installing Apache to ensure PHP support is enabled. In contrast if you're using a binary distro, then much like M$ support has to be as generic as possible and will therefore include almost everything.

Drew · October 29, 2009, 11:13:52 am

Quote from: slack---line on October 29, 2009, 11:02:44 am

Quote from: Jim on October 29, 2009, 10:48:51 am
are you trying to suggest that a linux install causes your cpu to run too hot?

No, not at all.

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Slackers, chill, I'm pretty sure it was a joke referring to the picture - "Think your CPU is hot, try a Gentoo install".

slackline · October 29, 2009, 11:19:34 am

Quote from: Drew on October 29, 2009, 11:13:52 am

Slackers, chill, I'm pretty sure it was a joke referring to the picture - "Think your CPU is hot, try a Gentoo install".

Aye, I'd clocked why Jim was asking, I was just explaining the joke ("Think your CPU is hot, try a Gentoo install") in the picture itself.

With the above explanation in mind here's some more geeky Gentoo wallpapers...

slackline · October 29, 2009, 11:26:11 am

Quote from: Tris on October 29, 2009, 09:07:58 am

Is that your fine photoshopping there Mr S?

Yep, I'm a whizz with GIMP