Linux Easter Eggs

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35 points·mitchwainer··16 comments

Not to be a buzz kill, but how exactly are these "Linux" easter eggs? Do they constitute the typical definition of what an easter egg is?

"Linux" is quite a misnomer here. None of these are actually in Linux.

Oh come on you party pooper, it gets the point across well enough

Not really, I was expecting "easter eggs" in the kernel itself.

Disappointed to find they are common to any OS running typical common FOSS programs.

In fact, many of these can be seen on Windows if you're using cygwin!

So a far more accurate title would have been "Top 10 FOSS Easter Eggs".

Always wondered what sl was... now I know!

$ sl

The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install sl

The Star Wars traceroute looks like an extravagant waste of IPv4 addresses. Am I missing something?

The implementation details are pretty interesting: http://beaglenetworks.net/post/42707829171/star-wars-tracero....

Apparently, it's an unused /24.

Nooooo not a WHOLE /24

sl is fun to install on a shared server.

Even better when you hear "What the hell?" from across the room when someone else runs in to it.

I'm going to turn on "Default insults" in sudo and hope for a similar result.

Can I say content farm?

Do you think it can be only a marketing strategy from DG? Seems pretty genuine.

i am now going to include sl on every install i ever do for other people.

I'm gonna add it to our chef builds, especially since you always misspell things. :P

another favorite is gti

On Mac OS X: brew install gti

I could forgive most of these, but really... doing a traceroute or Telnet session on a remote server that has been configured to act in a humorous manner is a "Linux" easter egg?

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