Installing Linux On a Dead Badger

Lucy A. Snyder

his tiny book is not really a parody of Linux, as you might think. It's more like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a Linux installation manual--a handful of fantasy-fiction and pseudo-news stories about fairies, zombloyees and, of course, Linux. The writer gives the impression of being a college student who spends most of her time playing DOOM 3, reading Slashdot, and texting.

Snyder has a good ear for how young people talk, I guess, nowadays: " 'I can be abundingly van Helsingly heroic now, Jimbo,' Bobby replied, reaching for the machete." However, I kept hoping she'd get give more details on how to get those config files in there. It turns out that the author's device drivers only work on members of certain species of badgers. Now what am I going to do with all these dead woodchucks?