Hilarious Moments : OS WARS - The Distros Strikes Back

Staggered by Windows' threat, Linux was forced to retreat back to the den to discuss with the distros their next move. Windows had something that could defeat Linux and Linux wanted to know what it was bad! The only way was through th firewalls of Windows. But Linux needed more wits to get through the firewalls. Now that Windows know who is striking them, their firewalls were made more secure and difficult to break through-thanks to Window Defender. There had to be a way.

Linux : Dear distros! We are faced with a threat!
Fedora : What threat? From who? The sleeky Mac?
Linux : No. From Windows.
openSUSE : Windows? What threat? Are you sure it is true enough to be believable?
Linux : Yes. They were so happy about it and there was no more fright in their faces. We've to know that it is.
Madriva : How about we use a little tact to get into their system?
Linux : What do you mean?
Mandriva : Windows Defender. We can do something to him.
Linux : Are you serious? hwat can we do to him? He is the right hand of Windows.
Mandriva : We won't do anything to him. The viruses will.
Fedora : What viruses?
Madriva : The viruses that had been building up all these years inside his defend cells. It is only a matter of time before they break out.
Linux : Oh my! Mandriva, give me a hug! That was so brilliant.
openSUSE : So now, what do you propose we do?
Linux : Wait for the right time to strike - when Windows is weak. Muahahaha!
Distros : Oh Hail to the Penguin-hood!
Linux : Hail to open-source!

To be continued....

Hilarious Moments : OS WARS - Return of the Linux

From the time Windows threatened Linux, and after Linux left, Windows Defender fell sick suddenly. All the time, the viruses that had grown in his vault and all the viruses he had tried so hard to prevent from escaping were now taking charge of his system. They were ruining his tools and killing him slowly. The Windows Defender was no longer able to control the outflow of viruses. It was this such time that Linux had been waiting for. So, they returned to strike - Linux and the distros.

Windows Manager :"We can no longer hang on!"
Windows Defender :"Oh no! Linux!"
Linux :"It's me again Windows! Muahahaha!"
Windows Manager :"What are you going to do now Linux?"
Linux :"Oh boy oh boy! Windows is scared!"
Windows Defender :"Yeah right! What can you do? Scare me with your multi-face?"
Beryl :"Hahaha! Not bad...not bad...they know our weapons..SNAILS!"
Windows Manager :"You dare call us snails?"
KDE sergent 4 : "Yeah! What do you expect from big bulky Windows? Poor thing....Muhahah!"
Windows Control Paneller : "You dare! Just because you burn away your dialog boxes doesn't make you a lean mean fighting machine!"
Linux :"Yes it does. Only you don't realise that people love me and will love ME!"
Windows Exceller :"Save yourself before I shoot macros at you!"
Compix Fusion Leader : "That is all you can do! Muahaha....I make my boxes dance around you and burn you down!"
Windows Defender :"Oh no you dont!"
Linux : "Yes we will!"
Windows Manager : "NOoooo!"
KDE sergent 4 :"Smash off Windows! Muahahah....Penguins Rule!"
Linux :"HAIL OH PENGUINS! WE ARE GAINING TROOPS!"

Beryl :"LOOK! THERE'S IBM! They are coming to join us!"
Linux :"What do you say now Windows? Hahahaha! Look at you!"
Windows Defender (defeated) :"You....w..w..wi..win...What did you do? I am getting myself hung...Oh nooooo...!"



Linux and troop : "Muhahahahah!"

Blog Writer : Ok you can give the weird look now. What am I actually doing? Since this blog has been mostly technical and little pinches of humour here and there, I thought why not dedicate this one saga to the 'funnyness' of the world and for the betterment of the ever dull society. What you might see might be totally academically unethical and never expected from a computer engineering student. But if it adds colour and interest to you, then, stay gripped to your seats and watch the 'funnyness' unfold.

A new hope.....

The hat, chameleon and the star

I can suppose that this is the last entry or rather the last technical entry before we can say goodbye. This post will help you highlight the special features in each of the distros that we've discussed so far. Before that, catch this cool video! (because you would be missing an important and decision-making overview if you doze off!)




Fedora 9, Fedora 10, openSUSE 11.0 and Mandriva Spring all come with the latest KDE, Gnome and Linux Kernel, no doubt about that. As for networking and internet browsing, Fedora 9, Fedora 10 and openSUSE 11.0 comes with Firefox beta 3.0 while Mandriva Spring comes with Firefox 2.0 and Firefox Thunderbird 2.0. All three distros come with the latest version of openOffice.org.

Interactive graphics wise, all three distros are similar with minor differences. For example, openSUSE 11.0 has different types of multi-desktop animation/visuals while Mandriva, Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 have the regular cube-shaped multi-desktop.

Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 have a new feature called the liveUSB boot. This feature allows you to boot up your Linux system using an USB which is particularly useful when Linux users are travelling or use different computers each time they want to boot up Linux. Especially for students and business men who tend to travel or use different computers from their usual. Moreover, bluetooth networking is pretty reliable in these Fedora distributions of Linux. Sending and receiving files from a variety of bluetooth devices is now much more at ease. The Fedora distributions use rhythmbox as their default media player. Fedora 10 has improved web camera functions, finger-print reader and has been proposed to be tablet-friendly too.

openSUSE 11.0's default media player is Banshee 1.0. This is something different from Fedora and Mandriva. Banshee 1.0 is a all in one control centre for entertainment and even assists you in CD burning and podcast management. Another different feature in openSUSE 11.0 is Tasque which is a all-in-all task manager that manages your online and offline daily tasks.

Mandriva's name itself came with a surprise to me. It was interesting to know that Mandriva was formerly known as Mandrake and Mandrake was named after a famous magician. With the usual KDE and Gnome, Madriva comes with another desktop environment called Xfce. Xfce gives another cool desktop environment that is graphically and visually appealing. Mandriva also comes with unique software and applications. For example, Abiword which is a word processor where you can do your documents just like in openOffice.org. Another unique software is HomeBank which allows you to keep track of your daily/monthly financial tasks and management. Mandriva has more than one media centre/entertainment portal, namely, Amarok, Elisa and PulseAudio. Though Mandriva doesn't have Forefox best 3.0, it comes with Midori for web browsing, Hotwire which is an alternative for shell and Conduit that helps you manage uploads into your favourite websites like Picassa.

Thus, that would be the overview of the distros that we’ve seen these weeks. I hope this entry would help you to zoom into one distro that you like and would suit you best. In the last last technical entry, we would glance through the other available distros in town and that would be the finale!