"The ``Redneck'' language entry represents a dialect of American English spoken by Red Hat Software's Donnie Barnes, and was used as a test case during the addition of internationalization support to the installation program. It is included solely for entertainment value (and to illustrate how difficult it is actually talking to Donnie)."

-- http://web.archive.org/web/20080119120948/http://www.redhat....

I wish I could verbalize why seeing a software's personality through humor like this makes me appreciate it more, but I can't seem to explain it. Even things like Google's Fudd option - http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer - reminds me that there are real people putting together the code that I rely on.

Ah RedHat nostalgia, ya a'ight by me & mine.

Thanks for reminding me how far Linux has come. I had almost forgotten how hard setting up X could be when you had to specify the horizontal and vertical sync frequencies, the refresh rate and other timing bits.

To test our Django website i18n I ran our gettext po files through the pirate command line tool (which converts everything to pirate speak), producing something similar to Facebook's "English (Pirate)" language option. Here's how I did it: http://www.technomancy.org/python/pirate-po-l10n-i18n-transl...

Homebrew package for this pirate thing as well as some others: https://gist.github.com/1143917

I can confirm that it works.

It's not really international.

So it's not i18n:redneck it's more like locale:dixie.

Thanks for putting this up - gave me lot of chuckles and nostalgia!

I must have installed RH5.1 many times on my Pentium - kinda regret not having tried Redneck option even once!

That was the first Linux I ever installed, and I did use the Redneck language during the installation. It was hilarious.

They should bring it back for a special anniversary edition

1998 + 15 = 2013. Perfect timing to get started ;p