Linux

A UNIX operating system that will run on basically any computer hardware out there (even alpha). LINUX is one of the most stable operating systems ever created and has been known to run for years before needing a reboot.

The only thing that will kill a linux system is hardware or power failure.

by root@localhost August 23, 2003

GNU/Linux

What the really hardcore, Richard Stallman-worshipping open-source nerds call Linux.

Uber-nerd: "What operating system you using?"
Nerd: "Linux, of course."
Uber-nerd: "DON'T CALL IT LINUX, IT'S GNU/LINUX, LINUX IS JUST THE KERNEL THAT USES THE GNU-LICENSED blah blah blah..."
*Nerd punches uber-nerd in face*
Nerd: "Shut up."

by Aqua_Mann March 23, 2008

lino

1. an abbr. of linoleum, the floor covering.
2. the linesman in soccer

1. ers next door looks really posh now. she's got rid of the old beer cans and done it all up wiv lino.
2. darren "oi, lino, what's wrong wiv you? E was never offside."
dave "bring on stevie wonder!"

by theWestHamfan December 25, 2003

linux

A half-finished piece of shit for an operating system that's a pain in the ass to install, a pain in the ass to use, and a pain in the ass to remove from the hard drive.

On the bright side, Linux makes an excellent disk partitioning tool.

If Linux was designed primarily for network servers, then it doesn't make any sense to market it as a desktop replacement, especially if the applications suck, and hardware detection is nonexistent.

I wasted half of a 14 CDRs of a 25-CD spindle on 9 variants of Linux. 6 of them didn't work because the computer shut down when the installation detected my video card. 2 variants wouldn't detect my soundcard, modem, USB scanner, and USB drive. Driver installation didn't do jack shit to solve the problem. The ninth variant detected my modem and USB drive, but kept playing this wierd, chaotic, repeating tune through my soundcard. Unfortunately, there were no sound drivers to resolve the issue.

Windows 98 beta detected all my hardware, and driver installation was a cakewalk.

Thank GOD I bought my CDRs cheap from Big Lots. But still that was a waste of CDs that I could have filled with MP3s and the best freeware programs available for Windows.

May the Linux programmers burn in Hell.

An everyday example of how Linux dependency/lib file Hell prevents people from using Linux:

1) You download libkmidiplayer2.2.4 for Linux, but to install it, you need :
libmidi.so.1
libsound.so.2

2) You download the two libfiles, but in order to install libmidi.so.1 you need;
libc.so.6
libkernel.so.3
libsynth.so.0
alsa2.1.3
libfm.so.0

3) To install libfm.so.0, you need:
libkmidiplayer2.2.4

4) What the fuck?

by Bert March 17, 2005

linoleum polisher

Like carpet muncher, except with a girl that shaves.

Guy 1: I think she's a carpet muncher.
Guy 2: Well... I've heard (Girl 1) shaves, so technically is (Girl 2) a carpet muncher?
Guy 1: ...Well I guess that makes her a linoleum polisher!

by illEATurHARTout May 24, 2005

linux

Possibly the best OS ever.
1.)Linux
2.)BeOS
3.)Unix
943.)Windows

Why would you rather have a window than a penguin?

I installed Linux on my computer.

by kamo December 14, 2003

linux

Simply put, it's an operating system that you can download (legally.) I's most commonly used by experienced computer users because it doesn't hold your hand as much as Windows does. It also requires emulators to run Windows programs. The source code for the kernel is available somewhere. The kernel was written in the early 90s by one Linus Torvalds in Finland, and is released under a "General Public License."

How's that? No airline suff, just the real definition.

by Utz89 August 3, 2005