Editing Fortune (Unix) (section)

==Content==
Most Unix systems use fortunes which are slanted heavily toward the user base of Unix, and thus contain many obscure jokes about [[computer science]] and [[computer programming]]. Other favoured sources include quotations from [[science fiction]] (''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[The Cyberiad]]'', ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', etc.), [[Zippy the Pinhead]], and the writings of [[Ambrose Bierce]] and [[Dave Barry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sources.debian.org/src/fortune-mod/1:1.99.1-7/datfiles/|title=Debian Sources: fortune 1:1.99.1-7, "datfiles" folder|website=sources.debian.org|access-date=2018-09-15}}</ref> Most fortune collections also include a wide variety of more conventionally sourced quotations, jokes, and other short passages. A few distributions include "offensive" dicta, which require the <code>-a</code> or <code>-o</code> options to be passed for viewing. These fortunes often include rude humor and profanity, personal attacks, and controversial comments about religion. Sometimes they are provided by another package, however as of FreeBSD 10.0 the offensive dicta have been removed completely.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/Makefile?view=log|title = Fortune - removal log|date = 2013-03-12|access-date = 2014-06-14|website = FreeBSD SVN|publisher = FreeBSD|last = |first = }}</ref>
As of November 2017, the quotations (with the exception of tips relevant to system operation) have been removed from FreeBSD entirely after user complaints regarding quotations from [[Adolf Hitler]] being contained in some of the files.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=325828|title=[base] Revision 325828|date=2017-11-14|website=svnweb.freebsd.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref>
The exact fortunes vary between each type of Unix, however there seems to be a strong overlap between the [[FreeBSD]] and [[OpenBSD]] fortune files. The [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]] fortune files seem to be much shorter, with many just on 1 line, and the 'offensive' dicta is much stronger. Most Linux distributions, such as Debian (and its [[List of Linux distributions#Debian-based|derivatives]]), choose the FreeBSD fortunes to put in their fortune packages, that can be installed through the package manager.