Torvalds在20日发布的Linux核心2.6.18更新声明中写道:“啊呵!她准备出航了,起锚!你们这些笨水手快来分赃吧。”
他写道:“(内容)没什么多少改变,大部分的修补程序都设为默认更新,但这封信尾的航海日志有记载细节,如果你有兴趣,你们这些低下的狗。”
署名“Linus,但你可以叫我船长”的Torvalds继续为几位知名的核心开发员加上粗鄙的水手名:
Al “臭鼠”Viro
“船长”Andrew Morton
Paul “假腿”Mackerras
就连核心更新的细节说明也充满了海盗术语,如:
[MTD] NAND: keelhaul marooned URL in Kconfig
e1000: fix bilge-sucking TX timout hang regression for 82542rev3
[ARM] 3793/1: S3C2412: fix barnacles in wrong serial info struct
[Shiver me timbers] EXT2: Remove superblock lock contention in ext2_statfs
Davy Jones: Didn't do anything, the scurvy lad. Ahoy!
Well blow me down, if he didn't fix 'make headers_check' on ia64
[JFFS2][SUMMARY] Fix a bilge-suckin' summary collectin' bug. Arrr!
genirq: Fix the typo in IRQ resend smartly, cabin boy!
国际海盗说话日是每年的9月19日,该活动鼓励全球民众用海盗术语进行日常对话。