[svlug] fortune cookies: do you have some favorites?

[Akkana Peck]

Jesse Monroy writes:
> No Scott.
> This a request to see what you have.
> Are you familiar with fortune-cookies?

I've never heard of fortune-cookies, but I've certainly used
fortune, the classic Unix app (package fortune-mod in Debian).
This one: http://www.unix.com/man-page/debian/6/fortune/

I wasn't totally clear what you were asking for, but if it's Linux
tips packaged as a fortune database, Debian has a package called
fortunes-debian-hints which gives fortune a database of, you guessed
it, Debian hints. Many of them are general Linux hints, not specific
to Debian. I'm sure you could extract the database if you wanted to
use it on a non-Debian system. There's also fortunes-bofh-excuses.

http://lost.sourceforge.net/i.php?language=en&page=23 looks like it
might be similar, but less Debian specific; I found it by googling
fortune unix OR linux tips OR hints

There used to be a variety of fortune data package options: long
fortunes, funny fortunes, offensive fortunes, etc. But I don't see any
of those packages on Debian any more ... maybe they got dropped from
lack of interest. I'm sure the databases are still floating around
on the net somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29#External_links
has links to a few other fortune databases.

        ...Akkana