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Redneck installer for Red-Hat Linux 5.1 (twitter.com)
41 points by kumarharsh 1480 days ago
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freedomben 1480 days ago
This is the greatest thing I've seen in a long time! What an amazing feature. We definitely need more laughs :-D
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uptime 1480 days ago
I remember seeing that during an over-the-internet install, both things were amazing for me at the time.
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h2odragon 1480 days ago
pretty sure this was done by running one of a set of Usenet propagated YaCC scripts (?) There was a whole set with "Swedish Chef" and "Elmer Fudd" etc, but I can't find them with a quick search.
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linsomniac 1480 days ago
As I heard it, it was a translation done by Donnie J Barnes of RedHat. It stopped being a language choice because Donnie got too busy to support it any longer.

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