Torvalds在20日發布的Linux核心2.6.18更新聲明中寫道:“啊呵!她准備出航了,起錨!你們這些笨水手快來分贓吧。”
他寫道:“(內容)沒什麼多少改變,大部分的修補程序都設為默認更新,但這封信尾的航海日志有記載細節,如果你有興趣,你們這些低下的狗。”
署名“Linus,但你可以叫我船長”的Torvalds繼續為幾位知名的核心開發員加上粗鄙的水手名:
Al “臭鼠”Viro
“船長”Andrew Morton
Paul “假腿”Mackerras
就連核心更新的細節說明也充滿了海盜術語,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!
國際海盜說話日是每年的9月19日,該活動鼓勵全球民眾用海盜術語進行日常對話。