Take the song “Here Comes Santa Clause”, and instead sing “Here comes Cent-OS”.
Here comes CentOS! Here comes CentOS! Right down CentOS Lane! Linus and Stallman and all their c-code, making up the brains, Files are loading, packets pinging, All is secure and tight Make your backups, read the Tao, 'Cause CentOS boots tonight! Here comes CentOS! Here comes CentOS! Right down CentOS Lane! He's got a keg that's filled with beer for the IT people again See the console boot up so fast, what a beautiful sight Your Kung Fu's strong, bring Yoda along, 'Cause CentOS boots tonight! Here comes CentOS! Here comes CentOS! Right down CentOS Lane! Nobody cares if you're rich or poor for it costs you just the same Open source code is good for all, Gnu makes everything free Fill your drives with open source love, 'Cause CentOS boots tonight Here Comes CentOS! Here comes CentOS! Right down CentOS lane. He'll still be up when the users ring out, the network crashed again. The secret of his magic be shown to all, just read man page or source. Let's give thanks to the open source Gods, 'Cause CentOS boots, CentOS boots, CentOS boots tonight. You SSH in, you code with vi, He writes standard out, he's telling you 'hi' CentOS is RedHat for free He's makin' a list and parsin' it twice, Software for all, at a low price CentOS is loadin' on down He sees you when you're surfing He knows when you're off-line. He even knows if you're patched or not, So update for goodness sake! You SSH in, you code with vi, He writes standard out, he's tellin' you 'hi' CentOS is RedHat for free! He sees you when you're gaming He knows when you're up late He even knows if you leveled or not, So play WoW for goodness sake! You SSH in, you code with vi, He writes standard out, he's tellin' you 'hi' CentOS is RedHat for free! He's makin' a list and parsin' it twice, Software for all, at a low price CentOS is loadin' on down You SSH in, you code with vi, He writes standard out, he's tellin' you 'hi' CentOS is RedHat for free CentOS is loadin', CentOS is bootin', CentOS is live tonight!!!
Update: 2011 – since I wrote this in 2007, Ubuntu has become my favorite Linux flavor. I have also used RedHatES due to my organization’s site license. I’m happy with it. I probably won’t write another song about Linux though, at least, I don’t plan to.