OMG BARBIE LINUX LOL!!1!!!!

tini1212 writes "LIKE OMG!! Have you guyz seen Barbie Linux!!??!?!?!? It's like totally cool! It's open source too!!! We can spend long nights patching the kernel, and look at pictures of that total hottie, Linus Torvalds!" From the site: "Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The new OS was created by Mattel to power the upcoming revision of its popular B-Book line of laptops for girls between the ages of four and eleven. The original B-Book laptop, which ran a modified version of PalmOS, was a huge hit with consumers last holiday season, so much so that many stores had trouble keeping them in stock."

So Old!

[dmbtech]

That april fools page was made a long time ago, must be in 2004 or 2004. It still uses terms such as lindows. Also, that was a lot of effort, pictures and text for one april fools jokes. Usually there just short and to the point.

Re:jesus christ

[PeelBoy]

As much as the site pisses me off I do like it for the most part.

The April 1st thing has been getting worse and worse every year.

When I first started reading the site they would do just a hand full of jokes, no pink site, no LOL's and no !!!!!!!!!!!!!'s

The jokes had a lot more brain power behind them and half the time the involved more than 1 site to make them seem more real.

These days the jokes are more and more forced. It seems like the staff doesn't even want to do them.. Like they HAVE to do them.. So they just go make a bunch of half assed forced jokes knowing how bad they suck just so their managers don't fire them for not doing April 1st jokes.

I just can't stand the fact that I can't read pretty much all of my favorite sites on this day. I know everything that gets posted is bull shit. I don't even have to use my brain to figure it out. There aren't real posts mixed in with the fake ones. It's all fake. It's all brainless fake stuff.

I want to use my brain. I want to forget that it was April 1st and be completely fooled by a joke or have to use my brain to figure it out.

Seriously. Is this site "news for nerds" or "news for myspace users"

(I think I over used the word brain, but fuck it I'm drunk and I don't feel like fixing it)

April fools?

[isny]

You know, this isn't really a bad idea. If this OS existed, I would be considering it for my daughter. This is exactly what KDE Plasma developers should be thinking for usability.

Re:what the hell

[bidule]

Reverse logic. Actually one of the story today was true, but I'm not telling which one.

The barbieOS...

[JollyFinn]

Well if it weren't reasonable to assume this could be aprils fools. This would be something I'd expect to happen at some time.
Most girls seems to like linux small games. And don't like the kind of big large budget windows games. Atleast those who tried what I had on my computer. Other things that they seem to do with computers, is IRC, IM &WEB surfing, and writing school essays, and wathing movies, and listening to music.
The movie playing part maybe only weakness of linux [getting past some DRM to play the thing], but if its stable in sence that they don't have to do anything and it just works then there is no reason that there couldn't be such distribution aimed at girls.