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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs

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The first time I used emacs, I thought half of its features were easter eggs. Even today I'm still not sure.

I was going to downmod you for a tired joke about Emacs... but since your nickname is so awesome, I upmodded you instead.

apt-get moo gets you the cow and the "Have you mooed today?" message. If you try that with aptitude you get:

  # aptitude moo
  There are no Easter Eggs in this program.

It is a dirty lie. Try:

  # aptitude -v moo
  # aptitude -v -v moo

etc.

Typing in "about:robots" into Firefox is an easter egg that could amuse your civilian friends. Useful conversational fodder.