Linux Easter Egg - Vim (Vi Improved) Response to Meaning of Life

It also works with slax but not Fedora or FreeBSD?

I tried it and got: What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? *42* Douglas Adams, the only person who knew what this question really was about is now dead, unfortunately. So now you might wonder what the meaning of death is... Vim version: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled May 23 2006 12:03:57) Running on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS (doubt this actually makes a differance, its the vim version that counts ;))

Well, this should work wherever vim (as opposed to plain vi, which is standard on many systems still) is installed and aliased as vi (otherwise 'vim' should work wherever vim is installed). Since you can get vim on mac os x, solaris, various unixes, freebsd, netbsd, openbsd and windows, its really not appropriate to mark it a 'linux' egg.

Well, since vim is open sourced software, anyone of sufficient skill can add or remove whatever source code is creating the 'egg'. This explains why some Linux distributions have the egg and some versions do not have the egg... it would stand to reason that editing to remove the amusing but otherwise utterly useless egg is a matter for the discretion of the vi/vim package maintainers in any given Linux distribution.