Brutal Linux
Yesterday I finally decided to start blogging. The final grain of sense were dropped while my optimization of the Ubuntu Edgy boot up speed by switching off some unnecessary scripts from /etc/init.d/. I were inspecting each script one by one for theirs behavior. And I discovered that the script /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam contains a brutal text (some symbols replaced with *):
# This only does something if I’ve f**ked up before
# Not entirely impossible
Really interesting for production distro. Later a did a global grep on a whole system for inclusion of the word f**k. And wow! The reasult is 966 inclusions. Detailed inspection showed that around two/third of them are in dictionarys (/etc/dictionaries-common/words, /usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries/, /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/), but the rest one/third is on conscience of the distro scripts (less polluted), development headers and the kernel headers (most polluted). I don’t want to know what results can be if to grep all disrto software sources and kernel sources. But I think it can be interesting “homework” for someone to grep full sources for keywords like: shit, damn, hack, how it works, and so on.