"Ahoy! She's good to go, hoist anchor!" wrote Torvalds in a public e-mail today announcing version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel. "Here's some real booty for all you land-lubbers," he continued.
"There's not too many changes, with t'bulk of the patch bein' defconfig updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here e-mail describes the details if you care, you scurvy dogs."
Signing his missive "Linus 'but you can call me Cap'n'", Torvalds went on to assign watery nicknames to a number of well-known kernel developers, as follows:
He also sprinkled pirate vernacular throughout the e-mail detailing the kernel update, for example:
The international Talk Like a Pirate day was yesterday, September 19. The event encourages people world-wide to use pirate terms in their everyday speech.