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+On hearing my description of the Super Bowl, a slightly nerdy British friend of mine said "oh, so it's like the World Cup but more homoerotic and xenophobic?" I didn't respond to the baiting, but certainly the Super Bowl is not to everyone's taste, fortunately Linux was there to offer an alternative. 
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+Any nerd worth their salt wasn't vegetating in front of the television yesterday, they were busy downloading and compiling the newly released Linux kernal. As part of what Linus Torvalds calls Super Kernal Sunday, version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernal was made available yesterday. The new kernal features numerous bug fixes, unpdates and new features including the introduction of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization to the mainline kernel.
+
+Proving once again that FLOSS software has more fun, the press lease from Torvalds is chock full of nerd humor. Here's what Linus [wrote][1] in an email to the Linux Kernel mailing list:
+
+>Before downloading the actual new kernel, most avid kernel hackers have
+been involved in a 2-hour pre-kernel-compilation count-down, with some
+even spending the preceding week doing typing exercises and reciting PI
+to a thousand decimal places.
+
+The half-time entertainment is provided by randomly inserted trivial
+syntax errors that nerds are expected to fix at home before completing
+the compile, but most people actually seem to mostly enjoy watching the
+compile warnings, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, scroll past. 
+
+As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on
+Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd'
+constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country
+sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens". 
+
+Walter was immediately attacked for his racist and insensitive remarks
+by Geeks without Borders representative Marilyn vos Savant, who pointed
+out that not all of their members are either pasty nor white.  "Some of
+them even shower!" she added, claiming that the constant stereotyping
+hurts nerds' standing in society. 
+
+Geeks outside the US were just confused about the whole issue, and were
+heard wondering what the big hoopla was all about. Some of the more
+culturally aware of them were heard snickering about balls that weren't
+even round.
+
+The above link also includes a list of updates, changes and bug fixes in the new kernal. 
+
+[1]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/4/119 "Super Kernel Sunday"
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