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From: Rahul on 20 Feb 2010 12:53
Florian Diesch <diesch(a)spamfence.net> wrote in news:sk6457-47g.ln1
@mid.florian-diesch.de:

> I'm not quite sure if
> <http://linux.about.com/od/funnymanpages/Funny_Manpages.htm> counts
> here...
>

I wonder if this counts as humor from an early Unix description by Ritchie
and Thomson:

"Perhaps the most important achievement of Unix is to demonstrate that a
powerful operating system for interactive use need not be expensive in
equipment: it can run on hardware costing as little as $40,000,"

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.pdf

--
Rahul
From: Moe Trin on 20 Feb 2010 14:55
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
<Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, Rahul wrote:

>Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside
>otherwise dreary manpages?

Man pages? How about chat(8) (part of the ppp package):

COPYRIGHT
The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU
public license. If it breaks then you get to keep both
pieces.

There certainly are others. I don't have a kernel source handy, but
in the 2.0.x kernels, there used to be a section in
/usr/src/linux/kernel/exit.c

/*
* Determine if a process group is "orphaned", according to the POSIX
* definition in 2.2.2.52. Orphaned process groups are not to be affected
* by terminal-generated stop signals. Newly orphaned process groups are
* to receive a SIGHUP and a SIGCONT.
*
* "I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?"
*/

Old guy
From: Rahul on 20 Feb 2010 20:12
ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) wrote in
news:slrnho0fhq.50c.ibuprofin(a)compton.phx.az.us:

> Man pages? How about chat(8) (part of the ppp package):
>

"man rpm" gave me this snippet. Not sure if that's more of "humor" or a
"feature"


-h, --hash
Print 50 hash marks as the package archive is unpacked.
("Perfect for the Impatient")

--
Rahul
From: Christian Kalkhoff on 21 Feb 2010 12:47
Am 19.02.2010 02:18, schrieb Rahul:

>
> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise
> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :)
>

Output of aptitude --help: This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.
From: Teemu Likonen on 21 Feb 2010 13:27
* 2010-02-21 18:47 (+0100), Christian Kalkhoff wrote:

> Output of aptitude --help: This aptitude does not have Super Cow
> Powers.

$ aptitude moo
There are no Easter Eggs in this program.

$ aptitude moo -v
There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.

$ aptitude moo -vv
Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?

$ aptitude moo -vvv
Stop it!

$ aptitude moo -vvvv
Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away?

$ aptitude moo -vvvvv
All right, you win.

/----\
-------/ \
/ \
/ |
-----------------/ --------\
----------------------------------------------

$ aptitude moo -vvvvvv
What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.



$ apt-get moo
(__)
(oo)
/------\/
/ | ||
* /\---/\
~~ ~~
....."Have you mooed today?"...
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