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Ubuntu in a Marvel Comic (Picture)

ubuntudaily.com — Ubuntu is featured in issue #4 of the Marvel Comic Mighty Avengers. You can see the boot manager GRUB and the list of Kernels to choose from, along with a movie-style “Access Denied” message.

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  • ghindo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+62What an old version of the kernel.
  • brycelb, on 10/10/2007, -39/+120WOW! You linux guy's get a hard on when someone so much as whispers Ubuntu.
    • DigitalJester, on 10/10/2007, -18/+9The ubuntu guy's do. As for the rest of us, who are sick of the sight of it, Viagra can't help us.
      • AlexLand, on 10/10/2007, -8/+4hahah.. yeah. comic books AND linux? how does this not have like, five thousand diggs?
      • mashw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Ah, I see the Ubuntu crowd are being segregated from the 'proper' linux users now. You just gotta love the elitism with linux.
        • almghty1666, on 10/10/2007, -6/+5well i mean, ubuntu is cool, but it's no gentoo
        • bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It is the ubuntu users who separate themselves, not the other way around. How often do you see a how to install such and such application for *insert distro name*, where distro is not ubuntu.
        • BHSPitMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How often do you see a [insert distro name, not ubuntu] user who doesn't know how to read a manpage?
        • petepete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Linspire?
        • BigJ27, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Redhat, SuSe, Linspire, Simply Mepis...

          It's really sad how you keep complaining that Linux is still way too hard to take over the desktop, and when Ubuntu finally does that for you, you complain and bash it. Gentoo this Slackware that. I used to be a hardcore Slackware user, but I'm all ubuntu now, it's a great community with the beauty of the deb packaging system. You can't go wrong, and most tutorials instruct the user to manually edit config files, so it's not like it's denying you the right to know how the system works, it just gives you the option of doing it graphically.
    • evilgold, on 10/10/2007, -12/+108=========D
    • fflush, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4Ubuntu this, Ubuntu that. WHAT ABOUT OPENSUSE?!
    • ksgant, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Oh don't worry, Ubuntu is only the "distro de jour". It will fall out of favor after a while, like all the other distros of the past.

      Gentoo used to be the big distro that all the geeks loved, now it's kind of self-destruction. Like the ones before it. RedHat used to be big, then Fedora, then Mandrake, then Knoppix and on and on and on.
    • antiorblkflag9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, i just got a chubby
  • Duggan360, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9=| Oh my god
  • schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -18/+4Direct to image: http://ubuntudaily.com/wp-content/uploads/1185408112656.jpg

    WTF? The bootloader says "Ubuntu kernel"? What on earth is happening to "Linux"? Linus, get off your a**e and get your trademark sorted out.

    [posted from a PC running GNU/Linux, which happens to be /packaged/ under the "Ubuntu" umbrella]
    • timf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23It actually says "Ubuntu, kernel 2.6..."
      The comma makes the difference.
    • harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -15/+2Ubuntu includes proprietary components, which means it is *not* a GNU system. If you want to say you run GNU/Linux, run Debian.
    • TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Other OSs aren't branded that way, are they?

      Do you see the name of OS X's kernel anywhere, really? Is it called "OS X APPLE/Mach" Do they give credit to BSD anywhere? "OS X BSD/APPLE/Mach" perhaps? Bit of a mouthfulll.

      If Windows ever switches to the Singularity kernel, do you think that it will be called "Windows MS/Singulrity" like some people call Ubuntu "Ubuntu GNU/Linux"?

      As far as I'm concerned, I run Ubuntu, an OS that uses Linux as its kernel, and includes the GNU Tools, along with a lot of non-gnu GPL'd programmes.

      Not to troll, but I've always been kind of curious, and maybe someone can answer this question. As far as I know, there are a lot of non-gnu apps most distros, even some binary-only stuff like graphics drivers. Most of it is GPL'd but a lot of it isn't GNU (AFAIK). So why do the GNU tools get mentioned out of all of these? Why not KDE/Linux? Or Firefox/Linux? I get that they were basically *IT* 10 or 15 years ago - it was the Linux kernel, and GNU (command line tools, compiler, etc), and that was it. But that doesn't seem to be the case today. I'd really like to know why the GNU folk seem to think that they deserve a mention above everyone else.

      Should we acknowledge every contributer, large and small, in the title?

      Ubuntu GNU/GNOME/FIREFOX/XFCE/KDE/BEAGLE/RHYTHMBOX/AMAROK/DELUGE/[...]/ABIWORD/OPENOFFICE/GNUMERIC/VI/EMACS/NANO/PICO/MOUSEPAD/LEAFPAD/YUM/APT/Linux

      Even more of a mouthfull, and even less practical.
      • deadlikeoscar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Dugg for the Deluge reference.
      • bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You don't understand the history of the free software movement which is why your analysis is poor. GNU worked for decades on replacing every single program of a unix system and even began work on a kernel. At the very end, Linus completely unrelated to the project wrote his own kernel for his own stuff and it passed it around to some people and it took off. Without GNU, linux goes nowhere, it is nothing but a play thing for a computer nerd. Without linux, GNU is still fine, they were as I said already working on a GNU kernel. So GNU is the essential pin in the whole creation (they did the bulk of the work) of GNU/Linux and linux really serves no unique purpose. That is why the insistence on GNU/LINUX. Your other stuff is absurd, of course you don't mention those because those having nothing to do with the core of the operating system.
        • TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2To me, a linux distro is more than the core OS components. Its a graphical shell, an office suite, a host of applications large and small, many of them non-gnu, and (for Ubuntu and most others) a Package managment system. As far as I'm concerned, a linux distro isnt so much an Operating System so much as it is a whole Operating Environment. OS *AND* Applications. GNU/Kernel *and* Userland.

          When refering to Linux OSes in general, I'll concede that its a reasonable opinion to call linux "GNU/Linux".

          Without the gnu tools, Linux may not go anywhere, But as for Ubuntu (the Environment, the "Whole Experience") - Ubuntu wouldn't go anywhere without GNU, or Linux, or without GNOME/KDE/XFCE. So why isn't it Ubuntu GNOME/GNU/Linux? Don't they get their name in the title?

          Gnome/KDE/XFCE are as important to the sucess of Ubuntu as GNU or Linux is.

          Operating Environment.
          • bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1GNU/LINUX is the general name for all of the operating systems that rely on those two things which encompasses a lot of distros. It is the common thing which binds them all. Therefore Ubuntu is a flavor of GNU/Linux. Your understanding of the emphasis of GNU is again lost. Think of it like the term "windows." Windows has a bunch of names, NT ME Vista, etc. But they are all windows. GNU/Linux has a bunch of different names (flavors/distros) but they are all GNU/Linux. Everything outside of GNU/Linux is variable distro to distro, therefore it is not the core of the OS, it is not given naming rights. Your understanding of the criterion for naming is different than what it actually is. Your assertions of "Gnome is important too" shows your misunderstanding. It is not because GNU is included in the distro, it is because GNU is the operating system, not only from a technical viewpoint, but from a work viewpoint, they did nearly everything. If it is to be called anything at all, outside of just the name "ubuntu", if you are going to append anything to the end of that, GNU/Linux makes more sense than Linux.
      • LilyFoxglove, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Actually, yes, OSX openly refers to the BSD subsystem as the... BSD subsystem.

        Even during installation.
        • TeacherOfHeroes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm not saying that they tuck BSD away and say "nuh uh. we don't use that". I'm saying that they'd almost certainly never include "BSD" in the name of the OS.
    • bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2wrong reply
    • brycelb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0It's these types of threads that make sane people loose their minds.
    • djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What distro do you run, anyways?
      • schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1At the moment (at work), it's Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
  • orangeparty, on 10/10/2007, -2/+50A russian missile base in a NATO country running on Ubuntu. God, I love american comics.
  • fasda, on 10/10/2007, -9/+7who the hell would waste their money on the mighty avengers to find this out?
    • roomforpanic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3No kidding, the Mighty Avengers and the New Avengers are both wastes of money, although I do like the Avengers: The Initiative series.
    • cleverboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Whuuuh--? You don't like Frank Cho's artwork? Excuse me?
      Well. Hope Satan has a cozy place for you, as you both can't recognize a god when you see one.
      http://freakcomics.com/images/BP18wraparoundcover.jpg
      Anyway... both books are excellent. You're both on crack. G'day.
  • DigitalJester, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1'shopped?
  • Virak, on 10/10/2007, -3/+90Dugg for hilariously inaccurate portrayal of technology.
    • soupir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14But spot on portrayal of Lithuanian missile commanders.
    • otaru123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's almost like "Hackers" in comic book format.
  • frsrblch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+89Wow, I didn't know a red ACCESS DENIED banner accross the startup screen could tell you somebody was stealing launch codes... I'll have to watch out for that.
  • debuggercll, on 10/10/2007, -0/+62memtest86?! WE'RE DOOMED.
  • ftbl52, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1It's down. Mirror, anyone?
  • Macshiba, on 10/10/2007, -17/+1Wow, you Linux guys must feel special now!
    • smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2not everything has to be a dicksizing contest.
  • manmademark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51I'm not really into pokemon
  • wofldibofl, on 10/10/2007, -9/+0photoshopped !!! (blatantly ignoring adobes rightlines on not using it as a verb)
  • smurf22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30I love how every movie that includes a virus it say in big bold letter and a exlamation point 'UPLOADING VIRUS" from some random blue and greed screen.
    • oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4not to mention
      1) the little beeps you hear when there is text output to the screen. a sysadmin's regular screenful of tailed logfiles would make you think you had tinitus
      2) password prompt that takes up an entire screen, then echoes the password in clear text
      3) more eye candy than compiz-fusion just to send/receive an email (ref: mission impossible)
    • jax9999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You're right, it should be a hello kitty screensaver...
  • MrAnderson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25I'm glad a grub menu with access denied pasted over it can be interpreted as the stealing of access codes.
    • urgan, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3better yet, a grub menu now equals UBUNTU
      • sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If you could read you woud see it says:
        "Ubuntu, Kernel 2.6.10-5k7"
  • Warptera, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7They're such drama queens. Pshhh.
  • Endurer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Something to laugh about, at last.
  • BuckCynnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30Pretty smart version of GRUB; it knows that you won't have any login privileges before you even load the kernel and try to log on!
    • zachninme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can set a username and password for GRUB, so maybe they failed there ;-)
      • BuckCynnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Damn it, I hate when people know more than me!

        LOL, good catch.
  • chaos386, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21I'm glad they dedicated four whole panels to just zooming in on the "ACCESS DENIED" text. I nearly missed the bright red banner and all-caps bold letters.
  • Computer_Kid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Skip the blog

    mirror: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=910361381&size=l
  • dpds, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4This is the same Marvel Comics where when Spider Man revealed his identity, it sent 300 million people searching "Peter Parker" on google and "crashed the internet". The writers at Marvel are a bunch of name-dropping floozies!
    • sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What the ***** are you talking about?!
  • iMaciMan1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9comics and linux in the same breath? i'm a geek myself but wow...
    • djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There's a Linux comic reading program. Who the hell would use it, I don't know, but...
      Happy?
      • bagboyrebel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have it installed right now, I've even used it a co....I mean, yeah, who would use it...
      • rutherford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dude. I have comical installed and a whole bunch of old JLAs and Fantastic Fours on my pc.
        Now if you'll excuse me I have to fire up my NES emulator and play some River City Ransom.
  • dhughes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Wordpress: ACCESS DENIED!

  • brianherman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Wow, that has got to be the best product placement I have seen since the matrix scene where Trinity uses nmap and a fictional script called "sshnuke" to gain root access on a computer.
    http://images.insecure.org/nmap/images/matrix/reload_nmap_f.jpg
  • carl25, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1just read the comic today and noticed the memtest86 picture in there
  • dillibob, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2why is every other article about what ubuntu is in? we get it. u can run it on anything. digg me down for it i dont care. i dont need to see every single article that has the word ubuntu in it
  • BHSPitMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Even I have to think there's better distros for running Lithuanian missile bases than Ubuntu...
  • moocow1452, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Use the freaken boot disk!
  • paradexes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Dugg because I am a fan of both Linux and the Avengers. Altho in this particular story Ultron had it easy. He (or she or whatever) just has to log into single user mode.
    Type sudo /etc/init.d/emptyallmisslesilosaimedatUSA start
    And bam or boom the world goes. But with all the heroes around we should be all set. Well at least in the Marvel universe. If that happened here we'd be screwed.
    • rusty0101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, it's probably buried in a perl library somewhere...
    • djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Then it's a good thing that a normal user can't run it... Might want to check /etc/sudoers just in case. Several times.
  • MrKC, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2This story was pulled from the front page. If you do a search for it, you will not find it. Digg and Microsoft are hiding the truth. Go to the link. The link is the only way to find this story.

    http://digg.com/tech_news/Microsoft_DIGG_New_Partnership_Launches_MS_Press_Release
  • cry0x, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2I hate Ubuntu
  • nukem996, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1***** I cann't boot into ubuntu because of grub! Damn you I knew one day you would turn evil! But look its a boot disc its a no its LILO here to save the day!
  • TVarmy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1I like that they had to zoom into "DENIED" 3 times to drive the point home. Plus, this proves that open source systems are by Commies, for Commies. Anyone who disagrees with me is a Commie.
    • djGentoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3OMG IM A COMMIE!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111 What are you going to do about it?
  • rockdawg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I wanna by the comic to know what happens next :P
  • fekimoki, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3OH MY GOD
  • whiteguysamurai, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2They certainly didn't use LINUX to handle any of the graphics.
    The WACOM drivers under LINUX were one of the many things that drove me back to the windows XP camp.
    It's too bad too.
    • Gutterpunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You got digged down, but its the same for me. I have a tablet PC, and I don't need all the fancy stuff that Windows does, I just want to be able to use the tablet's pen as a pointing device.

      But no such luck on the linux camp... Which is unfortunate...
      • msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't know why people are digging you down. I only run linux, but tablet PCs are a current weakness with linux. Oh no...digg me down for admitting linux still has problems to work out.
      • decoherence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Just wondering why you guys are wondering why you got dugg down. It's not like wacom drivers are relevant to an ubuntu cameo in a comic book, unless there's some subtle humor in there that i missed.
    • cyberwiz01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Strange, I have had no such problems with the wacom tablet on my Fujitsu T4020 tablet pc. Other than a little xorg.conf editing and a setserial command, it was pretty easy to set up.
  • johimself, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1And I thought *nix was unhackable...

    ...especially with the power off.
  • diablo75, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2"Oh My God" is RIGHT! :P
  • skinfitz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why are people assuming it's inaccurate because they see what they assume to be the GRUB loader in the background? Obviously the words 'ACCESS DENIED' would never be displayed over that screen - the very idea is ridiculous.

    The GRUB screen is obviously their password protected screensaver. Behind the screensaver is a screen that displays their launch codes, therefore if someone is trying to remotely control the machine and guess their screen saver password, then they are looking for access codes.

    There you go - suspension of disbelief maintained.
    • noamsml, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Wait, What!?

      Why the ***** do they have a grub screensaver?
      • msgyrd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The same reason XScreensaver currently offers Window's BSOD as a screen saver. Novelty.
    • noamsml, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Wait, What!?

      Why the ***** do they have a grub screensaver?
    • decoherence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1whew! thanks skinfitz, i was seriously starting to wonder what was going on, but now it all makes sense.
  • noamsml, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Someone obviously hacked into their computer and changed their grub configuration so that it uses a background image with the words "Access Denied" plastered on it in red.

    Stupid super-pranksters.
  • jax9999, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1oh god.. you know what would be funnier, and more in keeping with the context...

    If Ultron was running Ubuntu.
  • kryptman40k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0spam!
    go away.
  • Lenny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Unplug the Ethernet port you idiot! The guy can't steal your passwords if he can't access the computer.
  • AnnaBay21, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0why do I not want to use it?
  • decoherence, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Tsk, very amateurish to advertise that you've infiltrated the system like that... I expected better from the likes of Ultron.
  • welterde, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/07/27/omg-access-denied/
  • supermanred, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And may I note that Ubuntu Linux is getting PWNED in that comic. The launch codes have been comprimised.

    Should've used OS X like the rest of the White House.
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