(sort of) Linux kernel easter egg

[Fraoch]

I've been playing around with Gentoo inside VirtualBox, which means I'm recompiling my kernel - A LOT. About the seventh or eighth time round, I came across something which lightened the mood of the very complicated task...

BTW I'll be showing Gentoo to anyone who thinks Ubuntu is complicated.

[koleoptero]

All developers are insane drunks.

Not criticizing anyone, I bet you have to be.

[Swagman]

lol

Brilliant

...Yelp.....Yelp....

[Primefalcon]

Freakin hilarious!

[3Miro]

Humor makes for so much better documentation

[kevin11951]

Much more importantly:

Is that the old *gulp* Human theme!?

[Fraoch]

Much more importantly:

Is that the old *gulp* Human theme!?

Yup, inherited from way back and passed on from upgrade to upgrade. I never thought about it really.

[Paqman]

There's all sorts of stuff tucked away in the code:

Number of swear words in the Linux kernel

(Link is, unsurprisingly, slightly sweary.)

[Quadunit404]

If you look in the Makefile for Linux 2.6.38.4, it says this as the name:

"Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs"

[thewaffler100]

lol "might go off and kick your dog when you aren't paying attention"