What do Dueling Banjos have to do with Debian Linux? Taint.org has kindly blogged this hilarious excerpt from a Debian newsletter.
Some of the most bizarre mails on debian-devel over the years have been repeated requests by various people for the sheet music for dueling banjos. Several list subscribers have been eager to assist the posters in their search. Jim Penny called this the Dueling Banjo Effect and explained that this has become a self-perpetuating Google-flop. People use Google which points them to Debian to get this sheet music, and the act of asking reinforces Google's notion that Debian is a good place to get the music.
This part made my evening.
Posted on January 9, 2004 12:25 AM. Filed under: fun.