Ben@lemmy.world to linuxmasterrace@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agoPingu is here!!!!NSFWi.imgur.comimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
arrow-up111arrow-down1imagePingu is here!!!!NSFWi.imgur.comBen@lemmy.world to linuxmasterrace@feddit.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoso what does it do besides printing a penguin next to the ping stats?
minus-squareBen@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThis is a little bit like saying ‘What does a pen do, apart from write?’ It also looks very cool - cool enough that even people don’t find things cute will actually change their normal ping to this JUST because it’s cute. Pingu has 2k stars on github However, if you like pings you could also go with gping for a graph… but they’re all just bloat - better stick with fping, right? ;)
minus-squarepfannkuchen_gesicht@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIn this analogy a pen would be regular ping. A helpful little utility. Pingu would be a pen that looks fancy. Still does the same, just looks fancy.
minus-squareBen@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoFancy, yes. Not the same. For example: ping -a -c5 lemmy.world gives you an audible ‘drip’ sound for the ping. But people LOVE Pingu.
so what does it do besides printing a penguin next to the ping stats?
This is a little bit like saying ‘What does a pen do, apart from write?’
It also looks very cool - cool enough that even people don’t find things cute will actually change their normal
ping
to this JUST because it’s cute.However, if you like pings you could also go with gping for a graph… but they’re all just bloat - better stick with
fping
, right? ;)In this analogy a pen would be regular ping. A helpful little utility.
Pingu would be a pen that looks fancy. Still does the same, just looks fancy.
Fancy, yes. Not the same. For example:
ping -a -c5 lemmy.world
gives you an audible ‘drip’ sound for the ping.But people LOVE Pingu.