Cruelty Free Linux Distro Released
Posted by Matthew on Thursday August 29, 2002 @07:48AM
from the chains-and-whips dept.
Matthew writes: People for the Ethical Distribution of Linux (PEDL) have announced Green Linux, which they claim is 100% cruelty free, as well as made from 100% recycled UNIX. “For the first time, open source afficionados can combine their love of Linux with their love of being not cruel. We’ve taken the ethical dilemma out of running Linux” says a PEDL spokesperson.
“What we’ve done is remove the paper, the CD-R media, and emacs, and then recycled all that old UNIX code into a new operating system. It’s surprising that nobody has done this before.” said a PEDL spokesperson. When reminded that numerous Linux and BSD distributions are only available online,and that they too are basically recycled UNIX, the spokesperson noted that “they still have emacs.”
Feturing ads with nude women-who-you-might-think-could-realistically-be-seen-with-a-geek covering themselves with nothing but titanium powerbooks, the new distribution will be available only via download, to avoid paper packaging materials and the exploitative processes required to make CD media in third world countries.