The following is about an unnamed TTB making the switch from Win98 to Linux. Composed at the 11th hour by ARJ. To the tune of "Man in the Long Black Coat" with apologies to Bob Dylan Verse 1 The CPU's humming, the screensaver's on Connection is good, but she won't log on She's tired of rebooting, blue screen of death CTRL-ALT-DEL, cursing under her breath Not a word of goodbye, out of town she rode She's gone with the man with the long clean code Verse 2 Some say he's a god, can code like a pro His name is Linus and he's famous now you know His kernel is free, no doubt about that No worry that this OS'll make your wallet flat No more booting up in safety mode She gave her hard drive to the man with the long clean code Bridge: There're bugs in every program some people say It's true, sometimes you can see it that way Programs don't live or die, programs just load She gave her hard drive to the man with the long clean code Verse 3 She wrote some new software, under the GPL compiled & distributed it on Freshmeat as well Threw out her books about VBA She's a penguin babe now and she likes it that way Not a word of goodbye, not a tear showed She's gone with the man with the long clean code

Here are the entries! #1. A magnificent piece of Nitro-linking by EngrBohn! #2. The fabulous and groovy ARJ-A-Go-Go! #3. The great entry from Nathan! #4. The Godzillian entry from JimS! #5. The second entry from JimS! #6. Martin's "Sound of Mus-zac" entry! #7. JimS's third incredible entry! #8. chromatic's perl camel cowboy entry! #9. GreenEggs's Nitrozacian cubicle entry! #10. ARJ's lyrical second entry! #11. JimS's FOURTH entry... a micro-composition! #12. A hilarious comic entry from John Debes!