200 Curator Followers & Quiz Questions

Houtworm — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:27:16 +0000

Today we reached 200 Curator Followers, Just a little over a month ago I made the post we reached 100 followers, Those first 100 costed me almost 9 months. This is incredible growth and I hope we are able to keep it up :)

We also did a little quiz where we gave away more than 30 Native Linux games, If you are curvious towards the questions, Answers or the gamelist, You can check it out Below.

We plan on doing more events like this, So join our chat to keep up to date on these things, Our chat is also growing fast, We already have well over 60 people, We talk about Linux related stuff and we play a lot of different games together :)

I already registered the domain https://linfection.com/ There is nothing yet, But I do hope I can start working on that soon, If you want to help me build this new Linux community, let me know :)

Here are the games we handed out (We had multiple keys of some games)

DiRT 4, Road Redemption, Bloody Rally Show, Assault Android Cactus, Horizon Chase Turbo, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell, Kopanito All Stars Soccer, Paradigm, Bastion, Tower of Guns, Kingdom: New Lands, Mr Shifty, Type:Rider, Regular Human Basketball, Fluffy Horde, Cook, Serve, Delicious!, HIVESWAP: ACT 1, Adorables, Satellite Reign, Cities in Motion 2, Slash It, 12 is Better Than 6, Hacknet, Owlboy, Galaxy Champions TV, Overlord and Overlord 2

Here are the Questions from the Quiz,

Q: What was the name of a service that offered the UBUNTU cd/dvd and stickers delivery free of charge?
A: (Ubuntu) Shipit, Probably a wise move, Who even owns a CD drive these days.

Q: What was the name of the open source developer that was found guilty of murder?
A: Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, He is still alive today, sitting out his sentence in Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California

Q: How many lines of code where there in the first Linux Kernel version 0.01?
A: Linux version 0.01, had just 10,239 lines of code, These days it is closer to 30 million lines of Code.

Q: What was the name of a mascot, that once KDE desktop environment had
A: Konqi the dragon, There are a lot of dragons in KDE Valley, their antlers even show their ranks.

Q: What number was Linus Torvalds in Time 100's the most important people of the century?
A: 17th, Times also declared him one of the most influentual people in the world and also one of the revolutionary heroes of the last 60 years.

Q What is the deprecated name for BSD's daemon nameless mascot often called Beastie?
A: Chuck, The copyright owner of the BSD Deamon did not like it and said The mascot takes pride in having no name.

Q: What was the name Linus thought of before the project was called Linux?
A: FREAX, It was a play between Free and Unix, The FTP server was already called Linux, as a play between Linus and Unix so they just stuck with that instead :)

Q: What is a keyboard shortcut in Gnome Shell, that will allow you to capture screencast of your desktop as a video file?
A: ctrl + alt + shift + R

Q: How old was Linus when he published the very first version of Linux
A: 21, Linus was born on December 28 1969 in Helsinki Finland and Linux was first published on September 17, 1991

Q: What was former name of, now discontinued distribution, Antergos Linux?
A: Cinnarch, Antergos has been Spritually succeeded by EndavourOS

Q: What does the pwd command stand for?
A: Print Working Directory, I hope at least a few people said Password :P

Q: Which distro was the most popular one according to distrowatch chart back in july 20th 2003? :)
A: https://web.archive.org/web/20030720085321/http://distrowatch.com/ (Mandrake linux)

E: Generate a random number using your terminal with the following command, Share a screenshot :) I will toss a random number as well. The closest result wins. If people toss the same number or are just as close we will reroll with those and only those people.
C: shuf -i 1-10 -n 1

Q: Show us how long you can use your machine without rebooting it. The longest period wins.
A: uptime

Q: Which animal does the web browser's name, Firefox originate from?
A: Red Panda, which is also called a Firefox, Mozilla even adopted some red pandas and had them on a 24/7 live stream.

Q: From what version on did Linux use the GPL License?
A: 0.12 was the first version that used the GPL License, Before any commercial use was forbidden.

Q: Firebird, Renamed into Firefox was rewritten by the newly founded Mozilla, based on a different browser from the same developers. they open sourced this browser right before it was bought by AOL. What was the name of this browser?
A: Netscape, Netscape was dominating the browser wars against Microsoft in the 90s

Q: What is the name of "cowsay" command graphical equivalent?
A: xcowsay, Pretty obvious :P

Q: Is Linus a Liberal or a Democrat?
A: In 2010, Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States. He is unaffiliated with any U.S. political party, saying, "I have way too much personal pride to want to be associated with any of them, quite frankly."

Q: What is the name of webpage creation suite that once was a part of KDE DE
A: Quanta Plus, Sadly the last version was published in 2009

Q: Please show your /etc/fstab in reversed order (letter by letter)
A: cat /etc/fstab | rev

Q: Inkscape, well known vector graphics tool has evolved from another graphics software. What was its name?
A: Sodipodi

Q: What is the oldest still maintained Linux distro?
A: Slackware is the correct answer, Yggdrasil Linux was actually the first live distro, MCC Interim Linux was the first with a "easy" installer and HJ Lu actually realeased the first known Linux distro.

Q: What is the keyboard shortcut that can be used instead of the clear command
A: Ctrl + L

Q: What was the most famous, and never resolved ubuntu bug, that exists since the start of the project back in 2004?
A: Microsoft has a majority market share, As you can see here, Many things are affected, even Haiku OS. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Q: Gnome 2.x series had been forked into MATE. What's the name of the DE that KDE3.x series forked into?
A: TDE – Trinity Desktop Environment, Just like MATE it is still very well maintained :)

Q: What is the email adress Gabe Newel uses for his Steam account?
A: It is GabeN@valvesoftware.com, His password is MoolyFTW.

100 Curator Recommendations!

Houtworm — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:22:00 +0000

Today the curator page reached its 100th review. Surely it was just a matter of time, but I still like to mark the ocasion. We also reached 100 followers a few days ago, And I want to thank you all for your support :)

I am surely not stopping here, I will review every Good Linux game on Steam, I hope to clear the backlog one day so I just have the new Linux releases to focus on. I still have over 200 games on my "Curate" list and about 400 on my "Probably" list. So I will probably get there in a year or 5, Then I also have a "Maybe" list, But it still needs to be filtered. Don't forget you can suggest games in the discussions forum, I will be sure to up them on the list if it are games that are obviously missing from the list.

I am also planning on creating a website with all the reviews including images and some nice filter and sorting methods to make it easier to find your next game or decide on what you want to play. It will also be a place where I can put a bit more detail in my guides. I also have a few people who are interested in writing some stuff. But we plan to make it a whole lot more, It might be nice to organize events and meet fellow penguins to play with online. If you are interested in helping us with this project be sure to hit me up.

I am also thinking about setting up a git repo for the guides and reviews so anyone can add more and edit them, I know I make a lot of spelling errors, And this could also speed up the complete process and make it a community thing, But I am still in doubt, Surely opinions differ. Let me know what you think.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone for their continued support, I will post back here when I reach the next milestone :)

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