FORTUNATE(6)

📦 version 3.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ FORTUNATE ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual for Fortunate — literally just a little program whose whole entire job is to provide wisdom and humor to all 💖 like that's the mission statement, that's the vibe, periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Fortunate

yeah that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she just is 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk, this page is here to briefly document the Fortunate command. and the tea on why this page even exists? it was written for the Debian distribution because the original program just… doesn't have a manual page. not a single one. iconic of it, honestly 🙈 so someone had to step up and now here we are.

so what is Fortunate, you ask? bestie, it's a program that displays a quotation in a window 🎀 like a whole little wisdom drop, but make it GUI.

technically speaking (and I am being so serious rn), Fortunate is a Cocoa/Objective-C graphical front end to the command line BSD fortune — and that program? that one has been out here since the dawn of time, providing countless seconds of fun each and every time a user logs in. countless. seconds. of fun. that's the legacy. that's the blueprint. 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

like, go read those too if you wanna be a well-rounded unix girlie ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>. we love a documentation icon 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came from the Games Manual, section 6, and it's dated December 25, 2004 — a lil Christmas gift of a manpage, no cap 🎁💖 slay, go get your fortune told 🌈⭐

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