The Linux Lord’s Prayer
My colleague, Naomi Rosenberg, recently wrote this short piece.
The Linux Lord’s Prayer
Our father, who art in /sbin,
init is thy name.
Thy PID is 1;
Thy children run
In user space as they do in kernel.
Give us this day our daily RAM
And forgive us our interrupts
As we are nice to those who interrupt us.
Lead us not into uncaught exception
And deliver us from SIGKILL
For thine is the system
And thou art the saviour
For ever and ever – until we upgrade yer!
Also translated into German by Andreas Pothe
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@judith:
Surely if you see "~ /sbin, init, PID, SIGKILL and exception" then the poem isn't for you!
The Linux Lord's Prayer
It's lovely! Can we have more of these?
But I (and if it's to go out to others only maginally digitally educated!) need a glossary at the bottom for the more obscure references ~ /sbin, init, PID, SIGKILL and exception?
And in true 'folk' tradition, the last line would scan more easily, if amended to -
"For ever and ever, - 'till we upgrade yer!'"
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