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The more you think about it (discuss.tchncs.de)

Please be aware that there were only 4 elephants. Sorry Slackware & Gentoo enthusiasts.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 weeks ago

I'm offended by the fact that Debian is depicted as the same size as the other elephants. Offended!

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

Ever since the untimely death of CentOS I feel like Debian and its spin-off Ubuntu have been pulling double their weight in server applications.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't centos users switch to Rocky or Alma?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think most people moved to Rocky Linux. The problem with Debian is that it can be a bit slow on security patches and it doesn't ship with any security set up. It isn't bad but it takes a little more knowledge to secure.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, what else would you use, Arch? πŸ˜‚ It's either Debian or Ubuntu if you need the corpo support.

[-] ragas@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm offended that Arch is there as an Elephant. Slackware would have way more right to be there.

Also Gentoo. :))

[-] 3laws@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Arch is the arrogant mouse, gathering all the stories the elephants tell, making a huge library, asking for directions, the sometimes funny sometimes unreliable friend. No elephant is scared of them, they tolerate him enough because deep down they know they also need the mouse.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

I remember when I thought Arch was unreliable.

[-] friendlymessage@feddit.org 55 points 2 weeks ago

Why's the disc not flat? Did some conspiracy nut draw this?

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

Probably someone who believes, there used to be five elephants.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Anyway never mind that. Back down the fat mines

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're saying it's a relativistic effect?

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

When light encounters a strong magical field it loses all sense of urgency. It slows right down. And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong, which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleeping landscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it, like golden syrup.

https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/read-an-extract-from-the-light-fantastic/

[-] Rokin@lemm.ee 38 points 2 weeks ago

What did some dude with a hobby finish?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago
[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Well he's Finnish, but I don't think he's finished yet.

[-] sherlock@feddit.nu 22 points 2 weeks ago

GNU Terry Pratchett

[-] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago

gentoo would be here but its busy compiling a browser to view lemmy gimp to add its self in and its updates for the last year

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nowadays busy with making my useflags compatible with bin-packages to reduce time to update.

I am curious, though how adoption of this new feature is.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago

FinNish

"Finish" means something entirely else

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 5 points 2 weeks ago

How can you tell them apart in normal, spoken conversations? The same pronunciation of the two different words have led to disastrous results, surely!

[-] jecxjo@midwest.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

The word you're looking for is "context."

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Im pretty sure they just wanted to jokingly point out how context matters and spelling usually doesn't as much

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

He's a carpenter

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

i don't see it that way. i see pacman, apt, and rpm.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All I see is blonde... brunette...zypper

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't have made much sense since it doesn't use GNU utils by default. Also Hinduism lacks a sufficient amount of elephants to put all big source distros there anyway.

It would make sense in a meme about docker though, Alpine is really popular for containers.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

oh yeah ig, the gnu part wouldn't have made sense

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think he's finished

[-] youRFate@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

And here I am using FreeBSD.

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

the whole turtle body should be GNU with the head as Linux

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn Small Linux has entered the chat.

[-] monogram@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Alpine Linux enters the chat

this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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