"linux John" wrote:

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strong and seriuos. What about "have a lot of fun!"

I always found that one disadvantage of SuSE is that slogan they carry: "Have a lot of fun". Having fun with the OS is not my primary goal. It causes some irritation. Am I the only one to see it this way? (I remember someone complaining: looks like linux is just a stupid game.) I removed the phrase from /etc/motd (message of the day), so it's gone. But, what's more, I always wondered how a company with this slogan could ever be taken serious in business life. So I am glad to see now that at least they don't proclaim it from the housetops. SH

Hi, thanks to all who gave their opinion. For me, 'having fun' always meant: 'playing a game'. But many of the things I do with my computer are bloody serious! <g> For Ken Hughes and Timothy Butler, 'having fun' is more like 'being satisfied', being happy with it. For gabriel it's a friendly little message, which should address your sense of humour. For Michael Carr it's even grim humour! :-D I agree very much with Patrick Nelson that it would be desirable not to make the professional version look as if it were aimed at children. Then there's Alex who finds this discussion rather unimportant. Well, wittingly or unwittingly, I think you're always looking for things you can identify with, so you can say: this is 'my' distro, this is 'my' style, this is what I want to present myself with. For some it's more important than for others, I believe that it gets more important when you grow older. I'm 51 now.... Then there's Kastus and Álvaro who pointed me to Linus's philosophy and his book, 'Just for fun'. I will read it, it seems interesting to find out what exactly is his conception of 'fun'. Though I don't believe that everything he says is sacred.... :-v Well, looks like I've got something to do. Thanks again, cheers, Sjoerd

personally, i've always liked it if you don't have a sense of humour about your work you can always remove it like you have but personally, i'm rather fond of the little message it's like fortune it's just neat

From: Sjoerd Hiemstra Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:55:14 +0200 To: SuSE Linux mailing list Subject: [SLE] Have a lot of fun...? (was: http://www.suse.com)

"linux John" wrote:

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Kompletely German site:

strong and seriuos. What about "have a lot of fun!"

I always found that one disadvantage of SuSE is that slogan they carry: "Have a lot of fun". Having fun with the OS is not my primary goal. It causes some irritation. Am I the only one to see it this way? (I remember someone complaining: looks like linux is just a stupid game.)

I removed the phrase from /etc/motd (message of the day), so it's gone. But, what's more, I always wondered how a company with this slogan could ever be taken serious in business life. So I am glad to see now that at least they don't proclaim it from the housetops.

SH

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On Wednesday 10 October 2001 12:58, Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:

I don't have the original reference handy, but IIRC this "fun" thing originates from Linus himself. "Having fun" was the primary goal of creating Linux for him. SuSE just picked it up from Linus. You may like it not, but it is part of Linux.

Look at the title of Linus's book: "Just for fun" (IIRC)... so, it's part of Linux; using it as a motto... Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 Pro -=- Kernel 2.4.7-4GB -=- KDE 2.2.1 1:48pm up 2 days, 12:54, 4 users, load average: 0.58, 0.53, 0.47

And in what alternate universe will the Pointy Haired Bosses who might not take Linux seriously, ever even *see* the command login prompt? Those bozos will be lucky if they can point to a GUI screen and grunt, "Oog like icons!" ;-) -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them courtney@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)