David King wrote: > I wonder what a Dalek running on Ubuntu would be like?
Well for starters, there'd be none of these legacy proprietary limitations regarding stairs (unless there were outstanding patent issues with this technology). All Daleks would be a tasteful shade of chocolate brown with the exception of the "cult of K" Daleks which would be instantly recognisable by by the blue colour, lots of unnecessary flashes and the way they prepend a "K" to the names of their komrades. Several companies would also start to commercialise the Dalek race for their own purposes, adding builtin integration with a large starcloud services providor to allow the modified Daleks to access their services to send messages and search for the most efficient way to exterminate their targets. Some Dalek experts would criticise this approach and suggest that latency in deep space could become an issue whilst communicating through busy wormholes whilst purists would suggest that "googleks" could become totally reliant on these third party services, compromising their ability to exterminate impartially. Currently, however, all existing Daleks run a optimised version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Dalek Ultimate Edition operating system. From http://dalek.microsoft.com/en-us/ultimate/FX101674081033.aspx : "Windows 7 Dalek Ultimate Edition contains a number of game changing features and patented extermination methods to deliver an award winning experience all round. The exclusive ability to Reboot at Random (RaR) has been at the core of all Windows 7 Dalek editions since the initial release and has not left them since. Indeed it continues to keep thousands employed as engineers wormhole across space and time to restart Dalek Terminal Services from the console, helping to stimulate the economy." -- feel free to expand & elaborate I'm too tired to continue.... :) Tim -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
