Redneck installer for Red-Hat Linux 5.1 (opens in new tab)

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41 pointskumarharsh3y ago4 comments

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This is the greatest thing I've seen in a long time! What an amazing feature. We definitely need more laughs :-D

I remember seeing that during an over-the-internet install, both things were amazing for me at the time.

pretty sure this was done by running one of a set of Usenet propagated YaCC scripts (?) There was a whole set with "Swedish Chef" and "Elmer Fudd" etc, but I can't find them with a quick search.

linsomniac3y ago

As I heard it, it was a translation done by Donnie J Barnes of RedHat. It stopped being a language choice because Donnie got too busy to support it any longer.

For the filters, try here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/talkfilters

One year for April Fool's day I released a version of syslogd that would run syslog messages through jive.

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