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browny
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 Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject: Why a Cow? |
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Ok so Gentoo was named after the Gentoo pengin, pronounced jen-two. Teh fact the the Gentoo logo is a big "G" doesn't bother me, but why on the http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=gentoolinux.2457796stainless steel mug is there a picture of a cow?
Also could someone please show me how to make text clickable, I've tried using [url="http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=gentoolinux.2457796"]Mug[/url], like most other bb's use, but it doesn't seem to work.
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See this page. That cow?
Remove your quotes from the url= as in: | Code: | | [url=http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=gentoolinux.2457796]Cafepress[/url] |
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| That page still doesn't answer the question. It shows that the Cow is a metaphor for the Gentoo developers, and their frustration with current Linux distros. But browny wants to know why would Gentoo Linux, in a penguin filled linux world, and with the distro name being a small, fast penguin, would they pick a cow. |
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Curious
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Have you people got a problem with cows or something?! Cows have a long and storied history in computer science! Mainly because they look goofy.
When I was doing a senior SE project at university, we had 500 small, squishy foam cows made with the product logo on the back. I still have a few of them ( that weren't eaten by my younger relatives ). Cows are the rock!
-- Curious
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| Groucho wrote: | | I'm all right. How are you? I say here is a little peninsula and here is a viacow leading over to the mainland. |
| Brownio wrote: | | All right. Why a cow? |
| Groucho wrote: | | I'm not playing Ask-Me-Another. I say, that's a viacow. |
| Brownio wrote: | | All right. Why a cow? Why a why a cow? Why a no penguin? |
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pjp
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| Pindrop wrote: | | But browny wants to know why would Gentoo Linux, in a penguin filled linux world, and with the distro name being a small, fast penguin, would they pick a cow. |
I could have sworn the question asked was: Why is there a cow on a Gentoo mug?" not "Why does Gentoo use a cow logo?"Yep. Every time I re-read that, I read as asking: "Why is there a cow logo on a Gentoo mug."
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browny
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Pindrop wrote: | | But browny wants to know why would Gentoo Linux, in a penguin filled linux world, and with the distro name being a small, fast penguin, would they pick a cow. |
I could have sworn the question asked was: Why is there a cow on a Gentoo mug?" not "Why does Gentoo use a cow logo?"Yep. Every time I re-read that, I read as asking: "Why is there a cow logo on a Gentoo mug." |
Yes, yes i did say why a cow on the mug, but I didn't realise at the time that there were cows all over. Although my question has now been answered I'm still not happy, and am just going to put it down to being a cow cos some person had a random thought.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| browny wrote: | | Yes, yes i did say why a cow on the mug, but I didn't realise at the time that there were cows all over. Although my question has now been answered I'm still not happy, and am just going to put it down to being a cow cos some person had a random thought. |
I would say this is actually a pretty accurate description of how most things happen. I don't understand the cow either. I would have preferred an actual gentoo penguin because they kick ass and have a cool name.
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Tuxisuau
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 11:57 pm Post subject: Cows rock |
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Cows rock.
We should put a "Do you love cows?" question in the install cd, requiring to answer yes to continue the installation ;).
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pilla
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Because the children needed milk !!! 
BTW, does Gentoo have many developers from the Netherlands? |
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masseya
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| Bloody Bastard wrote: | | BTW, does Gentoo have many developers from the Netherlands? |
What does this have to do with the price of milk in China?
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| Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 7:58 am Post subject: |
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This is old stuff, but hey, I like the CompuCows:
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/ oo ______ / @@ ______
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CompuCow CompuCow After an All-niter
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CompuCow Asleep at the Keyboard CompuCow Discovers Bug in Compiler |
There are sooo many of those ASCII-cows... 
Cowbye,
Larde.
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pilla
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Well, cow is one of the symbols of the Netherlands and they look quite proud about it. About the price of milk in China, it is probably raising because they don't have enough cows.
| Tristam29 wrote: | | Bloody Bastard wrote: | | BTW, does Gentoo have many developers from the Netherlands? |
What does this have to do with the price of milk in China? |
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mooman
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Actually, my nick and logo came from that guide to cows,.. over a decade ago!
Don't believe me? Check out this old usenet post!:
Tilt/Hilt and an elusive Kate Bush cover!
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i like larry the cow ...he's funny ...but i'm a bit frustrated about the why also 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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AFAIK there are two dutch developers en four (dutch-speaking) belgian. But who are the "godfathers" of gentoo?
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloody Bastard wrote: | Because the children needed milk !!!
BTW, does Gentoo have many developers from the Netherlands? |
Thats not entirly true.
there are like 75% of people on the planet that can drink milk and do the thing with lactos, make it food or something, they have a special dnacode that makes some enxymes "eat" the lactos, those are mostly the nomads, the whole eurpoe some africa and a litle bit of asia.
on the other hand the lower end of africa, austraila and the east chine does not have that dnacode. those people can be allergic to milk, in there stomachs the milk (lactos) is split by the bacterias and they dont need it as much as "we" do. anyone can survive without milk.
if you are more than 2 years or something 
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