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The Open Mainframe Project, launched in August 2015, has announced its development goals for 2016. The Linux Foundation collaboration is designed to help Tux get its flippers around big iron. When it was launched at LinuxCon in Seattle last year, its backers included IBM, CA, CompuWare, BMC, SUSE and others. Apart from the …

  1. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Do penguins even have flippers?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Yes

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper_(anatomy) although that article gets a C.

      Also "A flipper is a typically flat forelimb evolved for movement through water." doesn't explain my plastic swimming prosthetics ...

      1. P. Lee

        Re: Yes

        >doesn't explain my plastic swimming prosthetics ...

        They are paddles (if on hands) or fins (if on feet).

    2. Stevie

      Do penguins even have flippers?

      Depends what model of pinball machine they are playing I s'pose.

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