[Techtalk] Cervix Distro?

iriXx dev_null at iriXx.org
Wed May 7 13:06:49 EST 2003


heh cool some familiar peeps in the interview... *waves*

i was going to ask if it was in an April edition of a mag... but that 
interview was from october...  the name has all the hallmarks of a 
classic April Fool joke.... ;-)

m~

Dan Richter wrote:
> 
>> I read somewhere about a Linux distro called Cervix, that
>> was developed solely by women. I don't see much information
>> about it doing a search. Did it exist? Is it still alive?
> 
> 
> A Google search revealed this:
>   
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/10/11/womhackers.DTL 
> 
> And that's all it revealed. I get the impression that it's one of those 
> projects that never really got off the ground.
> 
> As a side note, in that article, immediately following the reference to 
> the Cervix distribution, we see:
> 
>> On the high-traffic LinuxChix e-mail list "techtalk" -- a place for 
>> women (and some men) to discuss technicalities related to Linux -- 
>> gender is still a hotly debated topic. ...
> 
> 
> ========== Dan Richter ============== mailto:Dan at wimba.com ===========
>   We're seeing crazy uptime numbers now, like three months,
>   six months. I fully expect we'll see a year of uptime when
>   Windows Server 2003 is finished.
>      - Jeff Stucky, Microsoft senior systems engineer
>   (How ironic...)
> 
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> Techtalk at linuxchix.org
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> 
> 


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