It was still Thursday night, in fact, when I began to receive reports of an exciting merger that had just been announced by five of the major .
"We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution," began the on the Debian site. "Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity."
The resulting Canterbury distribution, it went on, "will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE."
Across the Web the initial gasps of disbelief were soon replaced by LOLs, of course, but there's no doubt the prank was a good one. Are there Linux fans in your life in need of a little loosening up? Or are you a Linux fan yourself and looking to have a little fun? Here are a few pranks you might try.