The cow thing is LAME

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curtis119 · Post by **curtis119** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:07 pm

quag7 wrote:
curtis119 wrote: You don't use Gentoo because of the logo........?
Heheheh, I think he meant, he uses Gentoo for reasons other than the logo

Ahhhh that makes sense now. Silly me.

Penguin of Wonder · Post by **Penguin of Wonder** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:50 am

runningwithscissors wrote:Maybe my mind is just corrupted or something, but that metal 'g' always looks like a cartoon penis to me.

I never noticed, but now I can't stop staring!

sofachillax · Post by **sofachillax** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:23 am

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

Napalm Llama · Post by **Napalm Llama** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:43 am

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!

truc · Post by **truc** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:48 am

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

Napalm Llama · Post by **Napalm Llama** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:28 am

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

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml

truc · Post by **truc** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:33 am

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 · Post by **J3N7iL** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:34 am

So I took some advice and added

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"USE= -larry"

Then of course . . .

emerge --update --newuse --deep world

and get this . . .

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error: command 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

!!! ERROR: dev-gentoo/LarryTheTransexual-0.1
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1521:   Larry pWn3$ ur pu73r
  ebuild.sh, line 924:   You have caught the ghey
  ebuild.sh, line 1233:   Cowpies have been added to kernel.
  distutils.eclass, line 35:   Called die, Larry Lives

!!! compilation failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Not what I expected at all

enderandrew · Post by **enderandrew** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:46 am

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

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

I hope they get right on this!

J3N7iL · Post by **J3N7iL** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:19 pm

LOL

Wonderfull! Nothing better then wasting hardworking folks time with nonsence. I hope they find it as humorus as you and me.

Penguin of Wonder · Post by **Penguin of Wonder** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:34 pm

enderandrew wrote:I did the right thing and submitted a bug right away!

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

I hope they get right on this!

LOL someone even took the time to respond with a "LMAO"

legine · Post by **legine** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:13 pm

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...

J3N7iL · Post by **J3N7iL** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:26 pm

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.

Omega21 · Post by **Omega21** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:32 pm

I agree with the original poster. A cow is very lame, we need more distros with dragons, birds of prey, phoenixes, etc...

J3N7iL · Post by **J3N7iL** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:48 pm

Omega21 wrote:I agree with the original poster. A cow is very lame

Thanx for the support. . .even though according to your avatr you need more cow bell!

shickapooka800 · Post by **shickapooka800** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:15 pm

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 · Post by **Lechium** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:26 pm

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.

terrella · Post by **terrella** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:04 pm

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...

emerge a-life

J3N7iL · Post by **J3N7iL** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:26 pm

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

Ahem! . . . http://j3n7il.net/images/acmegentoo.jpg

I fail to see the testosterone power you speak of.

terrella · Post by **terrella** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:33 pm

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".

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emerge gentoo-philosophy

What makes a cow, really a cow? This is udderly rediculous.

shickapooka800 · Post by **shickapooka800** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:26 am

terrella wrote:? This is udderly rediculous.

you mean utterly rediculous......har har

supreme_geek_overlord · Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:34 am

terrella wrote: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".
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emerge gentoo-philosophy
What makes a cow, really a cow? This is udderly rediculous.

I couldn't get that one to compile, but I figured it out, and now I have a patch for the ebuild...

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...
DEPEND="${DEPEND}
   virtual/gentoo-corny-humor
   sys-libs/libbadpun2"
...

Now everything works just like it did for you!

terrella · Post by **terrella** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:18 am

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?

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Udder = true

?
Then submit it for some generic Linux standard so at least all the other type of package management users know how to best taunt Gentooers for 'Ricer'-ness

Napalm Llama · Post by **Napalm Llama** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:10 pm

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,

shickapooka800 wrote:
terrella wrote:? This is udderly rediculous.
you mean utterly rediculous......har har

...you mean "ridiculous", no? Do make sure your posts are mistake-free before you criticise those of others.

ozbird · Post by **ozbird** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:55 pm

theJackalnz wrote:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/ ... gentoo.png

Unfortunately, "NO BULL" has been taken: http://www.pedders.com.au/about.asp?iD=165

(And anticipating your reply, "Bugger" has also been taken: http://www.badchickens.com/movie_bugger.html

)

The cow thing is LAME

Lay-REE, the comfortable cow

the bull in our posts

Re: the bull in our posts

Re: the bull in our posts

how many mascots can we emerge?

Re: No bull