Peep Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I've found all sorts of weird stuff before, notably the info in /usr/share/misc, but /usr/share/state just seems a bit odd. I'm a patriotic american and all, but it seems weird that several of the distributions I've checked all have the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence hidden away. bill@pico bill $ ls -l /usr/share/state total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45018 Aug 17 20:27 us-constitution -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9331 Aug 17 20:27 us-declaration Is there an interesting story behind this? Why not add documents from other countries, or something like the UN Declaration of Human Rights? Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I thought you were joking until I checked mine. Weird is right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 easter egg? like the IE's about:mozilla, 0.txt, and clock.wmv of Winblows? First one i've heard of in linux though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 HJ on the #irc found this http://directory.fsf.org/miscfiles.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 (edited) I don't have a /usr/share/state :'( I'm guessing it's only on 10.0? I have 9.2 woah! that miscfiles has the jargon file! sweet! :P Edited August 26, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Nope, I'm running 10.0 and I don't have it either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 (edited) I have 10.0, and don't have it either...weird.. maybe it depends on wich server you took it? Edited August 26, 2004 by Ghil Vertefeuille Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I think it depends on the distro. Mandrake and Suse (European companies) don't have it. Gentoo (which mystified uses) does. There are more, I'm sure. This is quite interesting, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I am sure this statement will be censored, but there is no document in existence concerning human liberty that is better than the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. They are perfect for the liberty of linux. If only some nation somewhere actually adhered to these documents! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Yeah, I don't have it in Mandrake 10 either. And Peep is also running Gentoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I am running Mandrake from a US mirror. No such files here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peep Posted August 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Hmm, you're right. I thought I had seen it in mdk, but now that I look, it isn't there. I actually think that the constitution would've come in handy a few times if I'd known it was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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