Who is casper?

[And1945]

When installing Ubuntu and forks, there is always written "casper/wmlinuz" on booting.

Who is casper? I have tried working out with one of my linux friends. It is not Linus Torvalds child. Neither is it Mark Shuttleworth (founder of canonical) child.

WHO IS CASPER?

[MooPi]

Why a friendly ghost you silly nut :p

[majabl]

When installing Ubuntu and forks, there is always written "casper/wmlinuz" on booting.

Who is casper? I have tried working out with one of my linux friends. It is not Linus Torvalds child. Neither is it Mark Shuttleworth (founder of canonical) child.

WHO IS CASPER?

... the Friendly Ghost?

Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost)

[And1945]

Is this real information, or just something you guys might think so?

[ratcheer]

It is real information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost

Tim

[loell]

it's a script, to run a preinstalled image from read-only media as live session. :)

[Pritamsng]

loell is right..

[And1945]

Its a script named Casper?

[Johnsie]

Why did they call it casper?

[DrMelon]

It's just a name.
That's like asking "Why did they call the core files of Linux a 'kernel'?"

[mickie.kext]

WHO IS CASPER?
OMG! You saw a ghost?

It is probably some scrip. And is called casper because it is friendly... and ghostly :D

I never saw it, though

[Cuddles McKitten]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper,_Wyoming#Demographics

[casrenooij]

Why did they call it casper?

Why the hell did my parents call me that... ;)

Who knows...

[undecim]

Maybe its an inside joke with the devs who created it.

Is this an Ubuntu-specific thing, or did it start with debian?

**downloads debian iso**

[sudoer541]

Why did they call it casper?

cuz a friendly ghost is haunting your computer.