The cow thing is LAME

sofachillax · n00b Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 70

gentoo is about dropping lots of useless stuff in your distro, so i'd say drop larry ;)

Napalm Llama · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 533 Location: Cardiff, UK

No, Gentoo is about choice. Given the choice, most people would choose to drop useless stuff, so that's a useful side-affect.

Howver, I choose to keep Larry. You can't take that away from me!
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truc · Advocate Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3199

well.. I only see the cow, when doing emerge moo, where are you all seeing larry the cow?

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truc · Advocate Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3199

oh, "now I see"

I think I like it too, this is just one more reason why I like gentoo and open source ... lol

J3N7iL · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

So I took some advice and added

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I did the right thing and submitted a bug right away!

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139758

I hope they get right on this!
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J3N7iL · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

LOL

Wonderfull! Nothing better then wasting hardworking folks time with nonsence. I hope they find it as humorus as you and me.
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Penguin of Wonder · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

hehe. Me serious?

well guys got cards for the Larry fan film?

Uhh, I might guess Nickelodeon hadn't that in mind but seeing the trailer on friday I thought WOW Larry in a movie.
I hope you all got your tickets reserved for Barnyard...
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J3N7iL · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject:

Thats my point,
Larry belongs in a barn not in my riceburner puter.
A drunk'n party cow has no place in a souped up Gentoo box.
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Omega21 · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

I agree with the original poster. A cow is very lame, we need more distros with dragons, birds of prey, phoenixes, etc...
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J3N7iL · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

I think the mascott should be a fork. nothing says "i'm gonna poke you" like a fork.

seriously though, I have seen Larry about 2 times in all my gentoo life. ! of those times was from a link about pointing to the about gentoo page.

Lechium · Apprentice Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 244

I never unserstood why distro named after a breed of penguins doesnt use them for its mascot. I mean Fedora's mascot is... err a fedora hat.
With that in mind Larry is pretty cool.
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terrella · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 47

Why do we have to have a steam-blowing, pissed off, testosterone powered mascot?

Isn't Gentoo a modern thinking distro? Where we are all au fait with the notion of a transgender mascot and/or man-boobs on such?

But really, what the heck DOES Larry, or Lary the mail cow (sic.), have to do with the idea of a beautiful Pygoscelis papua (Gentoo).

I think Fedora/RH have a long history (ref: Lechium), which is nice, but (ref: shickapooka800) really, Larry only does enter the history via a link "about Gentoo" page when you are busy trying to find the dang handbook. Larry is about as useful as the aforementioned "mamory glands on a bull".

Can we get a little more relevance into Larry? Can we performance modify him? Maybe a spoiler and mag-wheels might help out, perhaps emerge him with specific USE and CFLAGS to squeeze out that undetectable speed boost, *cough* placebo *cough* effect, that we are so infamous for.

Can we entice Daniel Robbins to make a final comment on such?..

Maybe I should devote my resources to development rather than these goings-on, hmm...

J3N7iL · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject:

terrella · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 47

I was speaking of your first post, and specifically talk of a BULL (being an XY version of a cow), and a pissed-off bull at that, these things have sometimes been associated with testosterone, is all.

I think it is great that we are all talking about what really is a "cow".

shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

supreme_geek_overlord · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:34 am Post subject: Re: the bull in our posts

terrella · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 47

What if we play a game: How many mascots can be packed into one post and then try to break that record.
Gentooers, ubiquitous in adding more mascots. Gentoo: the one known for watery decisions on even their mascot, why not a mascot for "arch" and "~arch", ideas?

With the funky "G"-logo, Larry, Barry (not iconic I guess), Tux (at large), that cool Gentoo-esque madcapped looking version of a penguin on the homepage posts, that UFO, and our namesake Gentoo, lets add this Gentoo-strapped-to-a-rocket version (which is actually a good version and makes sense considering the namesake) to the list.

Maybe Larry should have some specifications drawn up?

Napalm Llama · Guru Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 533 Location: Cardiff, UK

Is there a large version of that crazy frontpage penguin? I want to incorporate it into a wallpaper. (Yes, I know it's been done before, but MEH.)

Also,

ozbird · Apprentice Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 185