Rod rubbing register readers?

With an apt icon.

Nuff said

a future release of Ubuntu?

Bishop bashing bastards.

Pudding pulling plonkers.

Paris, 'cos its better to call a professional than do it yourself....

He was just working on the chav branding of future Ubuntu releases.

They are wanking walruses.

Paris, because I'm sure she has.

The Spam King and associates, perhaps? They already have the ability to get Linus' message, whatever it is, to the mailbox of millions... so:

Spammers are all Onanistic Onagers?

With the inverted icon to that suggested by Naich, because they're a bunch of backward onanists at best.

Many Digg users aren't actually old enough, to, you know...

or perhaps auto-erotic aardvarks.

when it's at home?

Onanistic Ostriches?

Peter-pulling penguins?

I'm off to the OpenBSD mailing list to find out what Theo calls Linus in return. Don't mess with Theo, he knows how to use the 4-letter-words like nobody else.

Paris, because she knows how to do it.

That's given me a great idea for continuing the ubuntu naming policy:

Gutsy Gibbon

Hardy Heron

Impure Iguana

Jerking Jaguar

Knock-One-Out Koala

After all, everyone knows Linux kernel developers are just a bunch of self-abusing sea anemones.

Venerous Vultures, or something like that? (Couldn't think of a better V word)

Anyway, when did Linus take charge of naming Ubuntu releases?

"Who will Linus insult next in the name of popularising free open source software?"

everybody, hopefully. go Linus!

Or Linus is just channeling Theo?

How long 'til he starts channeling Hans though?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Titillated Torvalds?

Monkey spanking MicroSofties

Tossing Torvalds

Jisming Javaists

Cock-sucking C-Sharp (programmers) ?

- at San Diego Seaworld. Used its back flippers quite inventively, and caused a lot of kids to ask "Mummy, what's he doing?"---.

Tossing Torvalds? I'm surprised nobody has suggested it yet.

I hope Wanking Walruses only do it at home, we don't want to see that on our lunch breaks thankyou very much.

Bishop Bashing Baboons,

or, rembering our feminine side

Fanny Fiddling Flaminigoes

all aliteration ain't art y'know

why linux isnt taken seriously enough to be a threat to Windows/OS X

When the rest of the business world they run the opposite direction with thoughts like ::

"If i trust the operation of my business to linux, and this little upstart has another hissy fit at some stage and does something because he 'wants to' (foot stamping) then will i be left f$%ked"

Real professional Linus.. real good. You showed them. Sink below everyone first. Winner!!!!

I'll buy tickets to watch Linus and Theo bicker at each other for a while. It could end up as a marathon.

My money would have to be on Theo though. He rocks!

Good on you Linus. Good to give these tossers a kick now and then.

I have to agree. And the Linux old-schoolers ask rhetorically "Why is it Shuttleworth that gets to talk to Dell and Intel and is getting all the business mag column inches?"

Why indeed.

Linus doesn't seem to understand the responsibilities that come with his position. Either that or he doesn't care. Fortunately for Linux, its developer community and user base are large enough that Linus' "idiosyncrasies" matter little.

My proposal would be:

"Todger-tugging Toucans"

the thing is; this guy writes stuff. and it works.

same reason Theo De Raadt (and OpenBSD) is/are still taken seriously. the guy also knows exactly what he's on about and he mouths off even more than Torvalds.

Masturbating Mactards.

Nuff said.

... Priapic Penguins!

Linux - Enterpriser ready - just unprofessional in other ways

Getting-in-touch-with-yourself GNU developers

Pickle-tickling penguins

Lizard-milking Linuses

Knuckle-shuffling kernel developers

Fig-fondling free software fellows

Thanks to http://www.starma.com/penis/willy/willy.html for ideas.

..invisible Banjo playing Bitches.

Seanie (- which is the sort of name I would call a child)

If talking software seriously gets us the Microsoft mess of today bring on the alternative.

Vendor lock-in.

Yeah we all want that!

"Silly Seanie" (awww, bless :-)

Absolutely. Linus needs to develop some of the basic social skills required for a successful professional in the IT world if anyone is to take Linux seriously.

Perhaps he should start by practicing chair-hurling and screaming death threats at Google. That's the way market *winners* behave. No alliteration. No attempt at humour. Just obscenities and unchained agression.

If some of you don't think this is "professional" acting, just go watch a video of Steve Ballmer.

Did you mean Venereal Vultures?

About the same number who read all the whitepapers and technical reviews of software before buying it.

Y'know, Frank, in Omaha. I think he might have a buddy, too. Not sure.

Walruses are tame compared to BillG and other microsoft employee emails. MS is now careful to destroy internal email promptly to avoid embarrassment.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09digi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

AFAIK, Linus and Theo have never thrown furniture at people. With that in mind, which operating system has the most professional looking leader?

No no, for GNU you'd have to pick some tossy recursive acronym, like say :

XIAAS Is An Ass Spelunker

That breaks backward compatibility with alliteration (which is deprecated), but it might be fixed in a later version, if anyone can be bothered.

"With that in mind, which operating system has the most professional looking leader?"

Solaris. Nothing beats Scott on in-line skates.

Paris, because she would.

I was thinking venerous, meaning 'lustful'. But I think your term is probably more appropriate!

Paris because... I really don't have to explain do I?

Could some kind person do a compilation, organised alphabetically ?

>> There is a definite theme developing here - Torvalds yesterday described OpenBSD

>> developers as "masturbating monkeys".

Dirty Devils, surely or Bishop Bashing Beasties

Chicken chicken-chokers

THAT could give him popularity, as others have demonstrated in the filesystem business...

Friday playmobile on this one eh?

Grepped a 2.5.25 gentoo-r4 kernel source and got this:

grep 'walrus' * -r

Documentation/rbtree.txt: struct mytype *data = mysearch(mytree, "walrus");

Seems Linus has a thing for the Walrus. Let's hope he doesn't take piccies and travel to the UK...

They just are.

Nah - she'd beat the tar out of him.

Wasn't she the several-times Finnish karate (or judo?) champion?

Bishop bashing blowfish, Shirley?

Linus ever tried. Tove is a six time Karate champion for Finland which means among other things that she can kill you faster than you can see. If anybody is going to die in that household it will be Linus hopefully no such deaths will occur. As for Digg wanking walruses is pretty tame most of them deserve a good beating maybe he'll sic Tove on them.

I suppose Master Torvalds would refer to me as a Regular Randy Retiree since I Found Fabulous Fiber and subsequently discovered the delights Monstrous Morning Movements.

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Ahh - if only there was a place be a child again .....

Oh, here it is : El Reg. Thank you for the environment to errrr 'express' ourselves !

Now as to Linus : did he ever think that Linux would be so big ? IMHO Linux was better when people didn't try to make is like m$. Maybe he feels the same way ? Prehaps the guy is caught up in it all, and can't make time for himself ?

Here's a few (childish) acronyms :-

BROWN : bullshitting retard overrated when new ...

BLAIR : basically lost any innovation recently ...

MICROSOFT : many interchangeable components of regurgitated obfuscated shitware offered for twits

MAC : micro$oftoffice available completely ?? (;-P !!!)

LINUX : long-term integrating new users eXtensively

SCO : skullduggery compulsory objective

SUN : seeks unknown nervana ?

PRESCOTT : paraiah, regularly egged so coverered over then trashed

DARLING : delerious arrogant requires locking in neverending grief

LABOUR : low accountability bringing obvious unpopularity ratings !

ahh thanks for indulging me !

paris cos only she could post airhead crap like this !

Sounds like Microsoft has copied Ubuntu's theme for OS releases and leaked the code names for upcoming versions of Vista Home Premium...

That he has put alot of thought into that insult. "Wanking Walrus" brilliant, he probably thought it sounded good as a song title

Vadge Vultures

...other future insults like Rimming Ravens and Felching Foxes,

At last, this method is widely used in its pure form...

>> And to get wider distribution for this message:

...and quite honestly. Why some people have to use lame mimicry to spread their chain letters ?.. :]

"If i trust the operation of my business to linux, and this little upstart has another hissy fit at some stage and does something because he 'wants to' (foot stamping) then will i be left f$%ked"

True enough, although you and several million others will be left holding a copy of the source code of the system that you trusted, and some of you might be willing and able to maintain it. Whereas, if MS decide that the next version of Windows will break all your apps, like the last one, you just have to pick up the phone to BillG and tell him not to.

Yes, Linux will never break through to corporate acceptance, because smart folks with MBAs just can't understand the notion of "software that they have some control over". They're convinced that they have to just trust someone, and then they look around for someone in a suit who they can trust.

The post names the OpenBSD crowd "Masturbating Monkeys", doesn't single out the devels themselves.

I do agree with the general tenure of Linus' message on glorification of security "research". Even though I'm not a Linux fanboy.

So that is what the bukkit is for! Ew!

"Nah - she'd beat the tar out of him."

Wouldn't it make more sense to say that Linus would be beat out of the tar?

(or perhaps into one?)

After reading all this?

Foxes don't felch, thanks.

Faggot Foxes, maybe? Or have I spent too much time in Sadville?

Unlike "I'm going to fucking KILL Google".

yeah, real professional, monkey-boy.

(this actually looks a lot more like SB than SJ)

Basically the Ubuntu release name scheme modified to suggest self-abuse (a bit redundant, but whatever). He's onto a winner there.

I don't know who the next target will be, but I'm betting on the label being "Onanising Orangutans"