Kernel, FOSS with humor
Programming for FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is a hobby for some kernel developers, donating there time doing what they like to do best. One thing I’ve noticed in this community is that language can be very relaxed. I downloaded the latest Linux kernel (2.6.17) and egrep‘ed some swear words. It returned about 290 humorous results, you can egrep your own copy of the source code or read the entire output here. Some of my personal favorites:
Documentation/ManagementStyle:guy who lost his whole 36GB porn-collection because of your incompetence
arch/sparc/kernel/process.c: /* fuck me plenty */
arch/sparc64/kernel/binfmt_aout32.c: /* Fuck me plenty… */
drivers/net/sunhme.c: /* This card is _fucking_ hot… */
arch/mips/pci/pci-ip27.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe … Don’t try to access
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_snmp_basic.c: * (And this is the fucking ‘basic’ method).
drivers/parisc/superio.c: DBG_INIT(”superio_probe: WTF? Fire Extinguisher?\n”);
lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up :-)
sound/oss/maestro3.c: * port to sexy 2.4 interfaces
arch/sparc64/solaris/socksys.c: * Dave, _please_ give me specifications on this fscking mess so that I