> -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jason Hsu > > What pop culture is very popular among Linux geeks? I'm looking for more ideas for special editions, and I'd like to > create a special edition that would really appeal to other Linux geeks. I wouldn't expect Taylor Swift, _iCarly_, > _Magnum P.I._, or NASCAR to appeal to that many of my fellow Linux geeks. > > How popular is Star Trek among Linux geeks? Star Wars? Dr. Who? Anything else? > This idea seems to defeat the claims of lean, swift, and useful. Although I like those and have collected most of the series albums, having that show up in my Linux is very unappealing. Also, in my opinion, makes the distro look like a kiddie toy. When things were much more simple, and before the day of the PC, the CP/M operating system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M> was open source and configurable by conditional macro assembly options (or in PL/M). One OS allowed great flexibility for differing environments. There are many structural differences in an OS for today, but the basic idea of one OS with user options for application or target specific differences seems better to me. Embeddeing the geekiness directly into the OS seems an inelegant contradiction to the KISS goals you stated. Chuck