OS-tan theories and disscusion

[Bella]

Those two suggested characters are Tifa from "Final Fantasy" and Amazon Cammy (although I do not know what series she is from)

Oh, thank you

And of course eCOS-tan hates RedHat-tan with a burning passion. I know there was a business-related reason as for why. If I recally correctly, Red Hat bought out the company that made eCOS and later discontinued it, completely screwing eCOS over!

In terms of OS-tans, makes me wonder if Red Hat-tan did something really cruel to eCOS-tan in the name of business! 0__0

.... kinda like RH-tan giving eCOS-tan a nice home and then plough through it with a whopping big bulldozer, perhaps?... all in the name of business, offcourse...Business is tough...

^Yeah! That's an excellent suggestion! I think that RedHat-tan would have been very nice to her at first, treating eCOS-tan as an adoptive daughter until she had to do
something outrageous in the name of business! Although friendly for the most part, she has not been very generous since taking a career in business.

I somehow thought eCOS-tan would be the victim of attempt on her life by RHL-tan (Oh man, I must be really macabre @__@). But while most would have given up after such an incident, she used it as a source of personal strength; eCOS-tan managed to break away from her oppressive company and take her destiny into her own hands.

Course, I've never imagined RHL-tan to be that cutthroat a person; but who knows what one will be motivated to do for their corporate masters -__-

(In 2002 when Red Hat bought out Cygnus Solutions (eCOS's parent company) they discontinued eCOS and laid off all its staff; but those workers went on to found their own company, eCosCentric. In 2005 they managed to get Red Hat to transfer all of the eCos copyrights to the Free Software Foundation.)

It's almost the complete opposite of what I had in mind for the relation between AOL-tan and Netscape-tan! : in 1998 when Netscape and AOL were both very powerful, AOL bought out Netscape so I thought that AOL-tan would have treated her like a prisoner of war until Netscape-tan's decline (pretty much hit rock bottom in 2003 while her arch rival IE-tan was more powerful than Netscape-tan ever was and she was mighty powerful in the mid-90's!) and since the early 2000's, AOL was going into a serious decline and suddenly feels regret for all the power-hungry schemes and attempted dictatorship she has done in the 1990's including contributing to Netscape-tan's near demise and the two then felt empathy for each other and became friends although under such sad cirumstances that could have been prevented.

A few weeks back I saw an excellent series on the Discovery Channel called The True Story of the Internet; the first episode was devoted entirly to the Browser Wars. I never realized how fierce the rivialry between browsers were, nor what hardships Netscape faced! But I guess we can be happy that Netscape-tan's work continues thought Firefox-ko; she is, after all, the biggest threat to IE-tan. But I guess it is good to hear that AOL-tan and Netscape-tan have become friends.

And isn't Firefox derived from Netscape code or something? Would that make Netscape-tan and Firefox-ko sisters, mother and daughter, or would Firefox just be a great admirer?

[Smokey]

Wait............There was a browser war going on?!

[Siya]

Ghostzilla-tan is interested.

[Smokey]

Ghostzilla is a nice program (now that i've read up on it ) but if HTML browsing is disabled on a domain, or if the site you're looking for is blocked, she would be powerless against the admin's restrictions...
I guess she would be good friends with other mischievous programs like HTTP-tunnel and such...

[C-Chan]

For famous characters, I'll admit I don't recognize them ^////^

Fufu... after all those cable TV show references, now the tables have turned.  ^____^

...RedBoot, of course! What kinda idiot do ya think you're dealing with

Sou sou,... I am talking to Bella-sama after all.  ^.^

Ooooh, I hope I can draw a eCOS-tan now. I always thought she be somewhat like eCS-tan; at first it was only the name they had in common, but now I see they share a few traits.

Fufufu... I'd love to see you draw an eCOS-chan.  ^^
Kinda worried that I keep dumping all my OS-tans on you, but as long as you don't mind I think you're doing a fabulous job with them!  ^___^

Those two suggested characters are Tifa from "Final Fantasy" and Amazon Cammy (although I do not know what series she is from)

Street Fighter... I remember when she first appeared in Super Street Fighter II.  ^.^

Course, Amazon's a misnomer,... she's actually shorter than short can get.  ^^;

And of course eCOS-tan hates RedHat-tan with a burning passion. I know there was a business-related reason as for why. If I recally correctly, Red Hat bought out the company that made eCOS and later discontinued it, completely screwing eCOS over!

In terms of OS-tans, makes me wonder if Red Hat-tan did something really cruel to eCOS-tan in the name of business! 0__0

Correct.  ^____^
I'm not sure if RedHat-tan did so personally (maybe under orders), but eCOS-chan did not take it very well and has had a vendetta ever since.

.... kinda like RH-tan giving eCOS-tan a nice home and then plough through it with a whopping big bulldozer, perhaps?... all in the name of business, offcourse...Business is tough...

^Yeah! That's an excellent suggestion! I think that RedHat-tan would have been very nice to her at first, treating eCOS-tan as an adoptive daughter until she had to do something outrageous in the name of business! Although friendly for the most part, she has not been very generous since taking a career in business.

I somehow thought eCOS-tan would be the victim of attempt on her life by RHL-tan (Oh man, I must be really macabre @__@). But while most would have given up after such an incident, she used it as a source of personal strength; eCOS-tan managed to break away from her oppressive company and take her destiny into her own hands.

Course, I've never imagined RHL-tan to be that cutthroat a person; but who knows what one will be motivated to do for their corporate masters -__-

Fufufu,... yes, that's macabre.  ^___^'
Granted, we came out with more heart-jerking stuff for earlier eras, but don't think RHL-tan would be capable of doing something horrible to a young girl.  

The house bulldozing idea actually works, if only because a person doesn't have to be harmed physically to carry a grudge.

More than likely, RHL-chan did try to befriend eCOS-chan and got along very well with her.  But being a bit corporate-minded at the time (=inconsiderate), she likely destroyed eCOS-chan's house [where she was born] and fired all her old caretakers [the only family she ever had] without consulting her.

Being a bit on the passionate side, eCOS-chan probably did not care for "legitimate business reasons", and immediately left.

Her grudge, though, likely did not arise from this as much as the hardship she and her friends had to go through to piece their life back together.  Although this gained her nerves of steel and incredible strength, it was also quite traumatic as well.

[Aurora Borealis]

Here's kind of a crazy idea I had for a comic and I was wondering if this would work but here it is:

A 'Cinderella'-like story about Mac System 1-tan's early life from 1983 until her release to the public on Jan 24 1984. As you may know, the Lisa was a lot more capable than the Macintosh and superior in most ways except for price and speed. The original Mac cost 1/4 as much and was much faster but lacked virtual memory, multitasking and protected memory which the Lisa had.

Also, the workers for the Macintosh development team were paid less than half as much as those on the Lisa team and the Macintosh almost got killed off but survived by being hidden away but was then given a second chance, most likely after seeing how poorly the Lisa sold.

(info from here: Apple Tidbits: Browse Facts Macintosh

In the story, it would feature Mac System 1-tan, Apple ][-tan and Lisa-tan with System 1-tan pretty much having the role of Cinderella and she realizes her life was spared mostly just to be the servant to her two older sisters until one fateful day.

Lisa-tan is most obviously spoiled but Apple ][-tan was still nice and supportive to System 1-tan too, right? (this is important to know- I need to know how they would have interacted with her)

[C-Chan]

Well,... barring the fact that you already have about a dozen active comics, I think it's a very sweet idea.  ^^

FYI, Apple ][-tan would've always been nice and supportive.  Her problem, though, was that she was too busy to be around much.  Being the sole vanguard for the company for almost a decade, she was overworked and underpaid, striving hard to build a better future for her younger sisters, but never really able to clock in more than a weekend visit to see them.  (Here retirement in the 90's, therefore, was much sought after.)

Lisa-chan probably capitalized on her absence (as well as her own position) to torment her younger sister.  Little did she realize, though, that immersing System 1.0-chan in a life of servitude actually dug her own grave, since 1.0-chan became far removed from the posh lifestyle to better understand (as ][-chan did) what the "common folk" REALLY wanted in a computer.  ^^

[Bella]

Fufu... after all those cable TV show references, now the tables have turned. ^____^

Now now, I've never made any cable TV references...they've always been network TV references

Fufufu... I'd love to see you draw an eCOS-chan. ^^
Kinda worried that I keep dumping all my OS-tans on you, but as long as you don't mind I think you're doing a fabulous job with them! ^___^

Of course not! Have you seen the track record of OS-tans you've dumped on me? VMS-sama, Unix-sama, Multics-sama...all designs I'd have never come up with.

Fufufu,... yes, that's macabre. ^___^'
Granted, we came out with more heart-jerking stuff for earlier eras, but don't think RHL-tan would be capable of doing something horrible to a young girl.

Oh noes, this must be my Russian side. Lawl.

Here's kind of a crazy idea I had for a comic and I was wondering if this would work but here it is:

A 'Cinderella'-like story about Mac System 1-tan's early life from 1983 until her release to the public on Jan 24 1984. As you may know, the Lisa was a lot more capable than the Macintosh and superior in most ways except for price and speed. The original Mac cost 1/4 as much and was much faster but lacked virtual memory, multitasking and protected memory which the Lisa had.

Also, the workers for the Macintosh development team were paid less than half as much as those on the Lisa team and the Macintosh almost got killed off but survived by being hidden away but was then given a second chance, most likely after seeing how poorly the Lisa sold.

(info from here: Apple Tidbits: Browse Facts Macintosh

In the story, it would feature Mac System 1-tan, Apple ][-tan and Lisa-tan with System 1-tan pretty much having the role of Cinderella and she realizes her life was spared mostly just to be the servant to her two older sisters until one fateful day.

Lisa-tan is most obviously spoiled but Apple ][-tan was still nice and supportive to System 1-tan too, right? (this is important to know- I need to know how they would have interacted with her)

Sounds like a good idea!

Lisa-chan probably capitalized on her absence (as well as her own position) to torment her younger sister. Little did she realize, though, that immersing System 1.0-chan in a life of servitude actually dug her own grave, since 1.0-chan became far removed from the posh lifestyle to better understand (as ][-chan did) what the "common folk" REALLY wanted in a computer. ^^

Sounds about right, too...

[NejinOniwa]

THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE NeoN CORPORATION AND THE CRACK KING.

Sorry to interrupt your jolly conversation, but I'd like some help with brainstorming here.
In the light of the recent maint downtime, Smokey-kun notified me of the fact that our maint page lacks a maintenance-tan. While seemingly trivial, I think fluff is vital to success (at least for us!) on the 'net. Thus! Any ideas, everyone?

I'm thinking hammers, ladders, and a miner's hat, btw.

[Smokey]

*walks through the hall, looks to the left, sees Nej talking in this thread (glass walls/doors), hears conversation, walks in*

Ah, yes...
Thank you Nejin for taking my comment to the proper thread. ;010

And while you were down, i was fitting existing -tan pics (2k getting patched again, ME crashed etc.) but concluded that they could send the wrong message...
So food for a new -tan here, but i was thinking more in the direction of a medical check-up/(periodic-) vaccination, allowing for existing -tans to be placeholders like there are a number of -tans in the banners... Plus it would make the maintenance look more human...-ish...
Amd my judgement/ideas have been seriously infected by a series i've been watching... -oooh 2k-sama being MRI-d viewed from the operators perspective'd be cool... ;010

But thats my idea, tainted by our friend Gregory...

2 ideas up, let's hear yours...

Added after 3 minutes:

Acually the MRI idea is something i could draw...
Interesting... Since i like tech-stuff... I'll start work on it...

[Aurora Borealis]

Well,... barring the fact that you already have about a dozen active comics, I think it's a very sweet idea.  ^^

FYI, Apple ][-tan would've always been nice and supportive.  Her problem, though, was that she was too busy to be around much.  Being the sole vanguard for the company for almost a decade, she was overworked and underpaid, striving hard to build a better future for her younger sisters, but never really able to clock in more than a weekend visit to see them.  (Here retirement in the 90's, therefore, was much sought after.)

It's great that Apple ][-tan has always been kind to her, giving System 1-tan a reason to live... there. But it's sad that while working hard to build a better future for her younger sisters, she was not there to help her younger sister that needed her help right now-- err... then!

Lisa-chan probably capitalized on her absence (as well as her own position) to torment her younger sister.  Little did she realize, though, that immersing System 1.0-chan in a life of servitude actually dug her own grave, since 1.0-chan became far removed from the posh lifestyle to better understand (as ][-chan did) what the "common folk" REALLY wanted in a computer.  ^^

How mean of Lisa-tan! That spoiled rotten... girl! (I still like Lisa-tan though) But at least what came around, went around! Lisa-tan did so little with her self the people saw her as useless, favoring the hard-working System 1-tan! And although the work has hard and mostly thankless, it most likely did make System 1-tan a better person, not be spoiled and do learn what the common folk really wanted in a computer! Fortuneatly, she did later manage to live a fairly posh and glamorous lifestyle but with understanding of what the people want and without the being spoiled!

Although she did cheer up considerably after being given a second chance and proving herself to the world, she still had some degree of paranoia as well as feelings of uncertainty of her new family's future which explains some of the less-than-good things she has done.

However in the present time, she is willing to interact with outsiders for redemption and hopes that one day she will encounter GEM-tan and hope that GEM-tan's feelings of fear and hatred towards her have died down!

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And here's the preview of the story!:


http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7162

[Smokey]

Oh, gawd! epic fail of Nej's discussion-breaker, backed by my comment/idea!!!

A Mod has waltzed right through it without noticing it!!!

[Aurora Borealis]

I am terribly sorry for not noticing! I KNEW I was forgetting something! >__<;

A maintainence-tan does have potential (good ideas on how to show her off although I do not see the possible 'wrong' messages of the crashed ME-tan suggestion) but because of how rarely the forum needs to go under maintainence, she wouldn't be seen much

[Smokey]

Well, she/they may not be seen often on the forum... but - (heeey wait a minute *flashback from episode of house* i already saw the site down 2, times since i joined) she/they will be posted in the galleries and may even be used outside this forum, maybe...

[NejinOniwa]

She could be used as placeholder for nonexistent or problematic areas, too.
Perhaps in the standard template for unwritten pages in the Wiki?