My Top 3 most Creative Linux-related April Fool's Jokes

April 1st. is a day in which computer users and developers have fun creating the most awkward stories and articles.  Linux jokes are especially creative, and the funniest part is that there is always someone who actually believes these "articles."  I learned to be on my guard because I used to be one of these poor victims!

Now, what happens when the jokes are taken to the developer level?  Let's see three of the most creative examples:


Number 3:  There has been lots of discussion about the volume sliders on KDE. Fortunately, a solution was finally reached. The KDE Volume Slider Compromise.

Number 2:  What happens when it is the developer of a distro himself the one who fools someone? This happened at the antiX ranks.  Anticapitalista, the developer of antiX Linux told an unsuspecting antiX user that a big company wanted to deploy this little distro to all their systems...with two conditions that could cause antiX substantial disturbance:

Number 1:   A big distro's whole site becomes a joke:  DEBIAN.ORG:

Do I need to say more?

I Just Got Fooled!

After a hard work's day, I came home and started browsing the Web. Then, I stumbled upon an article about a major security hole found in Linux Kernel that worried me quite a bit .

I asked some fellow Mepis users about that and the security status of Mepis...

One of them kindly pointed out some details of such article:

Archive Category: Humor
Keyword Tags: kernel security hole fooled you

Yes. I have been fooled and the whole web knows about it! :P

Still, there's something I like a lot about this prank...

You see, it's great to have an OS whose security flaws end up being for the most part either pranks or FUD. I'd be running around like crazy while trying to find patches and updates to protect my old OS a couple of years ago. Right now, even though I'm embarrassed because I was fooled so easily, I'm very happy as well because with Linux, security is real and what the rest of the world considers imminent PC threats are just chances to develop my sense of humor now.