This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.
ā¦ I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.
Itās an old meme but it checks out. Older than some of the people in this community haha
For anyone that hasnāt seen it, itās a reference to this satirical article from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030128011354/http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
If you see the word āLILOā during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix.
Wow, thatās a blast from the past! Completely forgot that LILO used to be a thing.
I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? Itās been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)
I used Ubuntu at the timeā¦ It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldnāt download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.
Man Iāve seen derivatives of this stuff, but this must be the OG post - thanks for that!
I thought the whole Lunix thing came from the elite hacker JEFF.K!!!11 so Iām chuffed thereās another level to this!
Itās funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that itās just satire though.
oh I guess thatās also something that younger people may not know aboutā¦ In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasnāt uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.
