Laugh along with GNU
This section is designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers. It contains software, documentation, music, poems, etc. submitted by GNU users and collected by GNU contributors over the years.
Nowadays there are many places on the internet where people can publish jokes, so before submitting a joke to us, please consider publishing it somewhere else. Jokes submitted by GNU contributors will have a priority. Please read the Guidelines for details on our submission policy.
Many of the graphics in the GNU Art Gallery also have humorous twists.
Computing
- 10 Kinds of People in the World
- Where is any-key??
- Dead Beef?
- What does Dr. Emacs think of the GNU Manifesto?
- Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon
- A Swarm of Gnats?
- The Gullibility Virus
- Top 10 reasons why Intel delayed announcing the P5
- You know you're a programmer when…
- Top 10 Unreliable Networks
- The Vaxorcist
- Virus Warning
- Physical Xmodmap, or The Dvorak Typewriter Hack
- Where Do Deleted Characters Go?
Software
- Source code for ed in BrainFuck ;-)
- C more or less
- GPL'd source code for humans
- Source code for ed :-)
- Emacs man page from Plan9
- Errno codes
- Error messages in Haiku
- Suggested GCC Options
- GNU Emacs
- GNU-Overflow?
- Happy New Year in 4 languages
- Hello World!
- Long Options?
- Merry Christmas in 4 languages
- Spaghetti Code
- Santa Claus comes to town
- Software Terms
- Ubuntu
- Unix Error Messages
- Some humor via Twitter
Documentation
- GNU Echo
- Ed, man! !man ed
- GNU Emacs acronym expansions
- Know your system administrator
- Power Users Guide
Science and Engineering
Music
Poems
Philosophy
The Fourth Estate
Dictionary and Word Play
- Anagrams for some common words
- FSF in German
- Fun Definitions 1
- Fun Definitions 2
- Grammar in the bar
- Musical pickup
- Panama
- Spilling Checker
- Typoglycemia
Spam
Unclassified
- A war against bugs!
- Funny Court Statements
- Free Software Hack
- Gospel
- A luser's interaction with rms
- The Paging Game
- Quotations
- Smileys :-)
- How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?
- The Wolf Logo
Humor Submission Guidelines
This is our policy to include something in the fun section:
- It should be funny.
- It has no copyright problems.
- It is not libelous.
- It won't offend most ordinary hackers more than is reasonable in humor.
- Although the humor does not have to be strictly connected to the computers world, we strongly prefer to reserve these pages for jokes related to free software, GNU, the UNIX environment, and similar fields.
Disclaimer
Much of the material on this page (and linked to from it) was obtained from the FSF's email archives of the GNU Project. The Free Software Foundation claims no copyrights on these.
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