Is GRUB a parody?

[spoketire]

Is GRUB's name, Grand Unified Bootloader, intended to parodize the term "Grand Unified Theory" from physics?

[sisco311]

no/yes:

GNU GRUB developed from a previous package called the Grand Unified Bootloader (a play on grand unified theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_unified_theory)). It is predominantly used on Unix-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like) systems; the GNU operating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_operating_system) uses GNU GRUB as its boot loader, as do most general-purpose Linux distributions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution). Solaris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Operating_System) has used GRUB as its bootloader on x86 systems since the Solaris 10 1/06 release.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

[Bosonator]

Sure sounds like it!

[bruce89]

Is GRUB's name, Grand Unified Bootloader, intended to parodize the term "Grand Unified Theory" from physics?





GNU GRUB developed from a previous package called the Grand Unified Bootloader (a play on grand unified theory). It is predominantly used on Unix-like systems; the GNU operating system uses GNU GRUB as its boot loader, as do most general-purpose Linux distributions. Solaris has used GRUB as its bootloader on x86 systems since the Solaris 10 1/06 release.



Everything is unified evidently.

[-grubby]

It's probably a parody of my last name. Those jerks

</sarcasm>

[Joeb454]

I only realised the other day that Debian's codenames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Releases) are all Toy Story Characters

[LaRoza]

It's probably a paradody of my last name. Those jerks

</sarcasm>

Probably a parody, not a Para-dody.


I only realised the other day that Debian's codenames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Releases) are all Toy Story Characters

How did you ever get to be staff? /me shakes head.

[Joeb454]

I'm your replacement. I'm pre-rc1 now, so they decided to put me into live testing...

[-grubby]

Probably a parody, not a Para-dody.

Thanks for the alert, I've fixed it now. We need more grammar police

[overdrank]

Thanks for the alert, I've fixed it now. We need more grammar police

:lolflag:

[LaRoza]

Thanks for the alert, I've fixed it now. We need more grammar police

We have more mods. I am sure we could put grammar correction in the CoC...

[Joeb454]

What if none of us can spell?

[damoxc]

firefox has a spell checker?

[Giant Speck]

Thanks for the alert, I've fixed it now. We need more grammar police

And a word filter that changes ******* and Windblows to Windows, and M$ to MS.

[grossaffe]

why doesn't the firefox spell-checker work in the ubuntu forums?

[Joeb454]

You're right it doesn't. It must be the way the reply box works. It seems to work with the advanced reply option

[dizee]

i'm not sure if parody is the correct word.

more a kind of nerdy in-joke reference than anything.

[Giant Speck]

i'm not sure if parody is the correct word.

more a kind of nerdy in-joke reference than anything.

A play on words is probably a more fitting description.