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New Baby in the Torvalds Home
Celeste Amanda Torvalds was born at last night, at 8:25pm pacific time. She weighs in at 7lbs 5 oz. Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam.
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I bet she can hack kernels before she can walk!
Congrats, Linus!
This is your sig. There are thousands more, but this one is yours.
It should be OK - Linus is running IIS 5 with the latest Service Pack, so it can hold up to any load. ;-)
Damm... I always wondered why 21" monitors were so big, it's for generating all the raditation to roast your nads?
I find it quite ironic that ppl use their 21" monitors as display of their manhood... "hey, look at me I've got a big fscking monitor", but in reality all that radiation is making them impedent.
Congratz man! :)
lets see redhat 7 was named after linus's favorite beer can we expect to see Redhat 7.1 (Amanda) anytime soon?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cixel
But, what if she uses KDE?
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
It's interesting how this thread has brought out the best and the worst of people. I've seen some comments that are really kind-hearted, and some that are truly foul and uncalled for.
A bit like the Richard Stevens story.
bwahahaha
agm-1.1-1.i386.rpm is too much fun.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Shame on you. Are you suggesting she's unstable?
Aren't most babies? Most of the ones I've been around almost constantly dump core.
if you let the baby smash repeatedly on the keyboard and submit it, then it would have the youngest post on slashdot... making for a more idotic contest then first post.
Congradulations on your new baby, I wish the best for you and your new found family and may the Lord bless you more each day. =) --Matt
Privacy? Not in this lifetime.
I'd like to give that baby a Gnome!
Debian - the distro for the sensible Linux user. Now available in 3 delicious varieties!
So what your saying is you against the 'kill -9' process? As the supreme court has ruled many times the 'kill -9' process is a decision to be made by a woman and her doctor, not by some ape like Unix guru.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. --Robert Benchley
i think its bill's baby. wheres the DNA test?
Looks like Linus better get started on writing that family tree traversal code... It better be efficient with the memory usage, or else he may not have enough memory to create more child nodes.
Now what would H if E fourth W was abbreviated in my P? T Jargon!!! L at me, 1 4m L!!
I didn't know he wanted to become a US citizen. Not everybody wants to, you know. That would mean he'd have to give up his Finnish citizenship. I thought he only wanted a green card (which he definately deserves!).
I doubt, therefore I may be.
Wrestling is the only soap opera that I've ever seen geeks even mildly interested in. Watch Y&R? Why? Nobody EVER gets clotheslined on Y&R!
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The gravitational constant of protein has changed. - Turbine
... catfight between Linus' daughter and ol' Billyboy's daughter!
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
On second thought, nevermind. I don't want to see Michael Copland get his dirty Corel hands all over it... [shudder]
"There's a party," she said,
"We'll sing and we'll dance,
It's come as you are."
She was 2.1 until the, er, blessed event.
Seriously, congrats to Linus! I have four kids and they are truly a blessing.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Congratulations!
It's clear that the Linux^Hs bottom half still works properly, does it scale to menage-a-trois^H^H^H^H SMP?
Stupid comment, but I couldn't stop myself, moderate it down...
sgis ddo ekil t'nod i
Shock, Horror, A release from the Torvalds household... Will Debian mark this by naming the next version with the 2.4 kernel Diaper? ;-)
I wish nothing but the best, and many sleep-filled nights!
At least this was delivered on time.
Can we all start waving penguin flags, chanting tux has come again, and rejoice that a golden age is upon us yet?
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
Hey, I've seen pictures of his wife.
I think Linus should Open-Source his family. I'd love to try doing a "make install" on his old lady.
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Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Ok, we know how to say Linus, but how do you say ;)
Tove? Long or short o? e like a long or short a?
Some oddness unrelated to english?
Imagine the horror when she announces her new job as Director of Development on the Windows 2022 project. That's bound to kill him, if it doesn't make him turn around in his grave, that is...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Personally, I would rather have a personally written note without lines of beautiful prose. It comes from the heart that way and not some $1.99 card someone thought was cute. To me, time is the most flattering thing for someone to give. To have someone take a bit of their time to make me feel better is a wonderful feeling.
I mean no disrepect to the writers of Hallmark cards and such, as they're obviously good at what they do. I just feel that if you truly want to get your feelings across, sit down and write it out. I think most people would appreciate that more even if it didn't have any entertaining graphics or creative poems.
Good thing they didnt `kill -9` ...
An idea for the next release of kill. Instead of using the switch -9, I would just love to write:
>kill kenny
-- A Mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdös
Actually, saving all of the fun little comments that everyone had about her birth will be an interesting log for her to look through with her father when she's older, don't you think?
:) I think it's kinda cute.
True, most kids get cards or flowers and junk (I believe somewhere there's a tape of a radio broadcast basketball game my father did play-by-play for the day i was born when he anounced it to all of Southern Illinois that was within the broadcast area- yeah, he should've been at home with my mom, but whatever) This will be a little more unique for the little geek.
Congradulation! And Best of Luck!
nt
.oO0Oo.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Why does Slashdot only value funny, informative and insightful? I want +1 touching, damnit!
Moderate this up - +1 hearwarming - I always cry at weddings!!!
Well somewhere I read that Torvalds mentioned that when his daughter will be borned then the new 2.4.0 would come also up "very soon".
Anyway congratulations to the big daddy. His wife gave him two daughters and the computer a penguin.
after the porn star.
hell yeah.
let me just say thats an awsome name (considering its the same as mine)
go girl geeks!!
Our messiah has been born. The offspring of God has arrived, and I'm right now making plans to follow the Western Star, to offer up gifts of frankensence, mihr, and kernel source code. Long live the messiah, our lord! Praise her!
...who has to troll using someone else's high-karma account.
I'm not losing any sleep.
Aren't most babies [unstable]? Most of the ones I've been around almost constantly dump core.
The ability to dump core without segfaulting...
I wonder if this technology will ever get into Linux.
I like to play children's songs in minor keys.
"We're all sons of bitches now." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
But will he give the first one to Alan Cox to maintain now?
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..and here I was, thinking everyone on slashdot gave a damn about Linus having a kid. Not only was I moderated UP for my post, but I get replies of support!
THANK YOU! To everyone who supported me, even through the bad times... thank you.
ok we know that linus has promoted free, as in love, software by having a child but the main question remains to all of us is will he continue with on with this promotion of the open source model and allow all of us access to his childern and modify them in ways that will benefit the community?
i think this is what should be on the fore front of all of our minds and of concern. i dabbling in the field of genetics feel we should have been involved sooner in this project earlier than we have been.
btw congrats linus keep them coming hope she makes her daddy proud.
A may she have a dog, woof.
freaking loser
It's not 3.0 either. See, Linus is 1.0. Kid #1 is Linus 2.0. Kid #2 is Linus 2.1. GrandKid #1 is Linus 3.0.
My wife and I are also at that stage. Version 0.99RC3, waiting for the full productional version to ship.
OK but you get to change them *ALL*.
Mozel Tov to the Torvolds' Family!
The Cure of the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.
Erlang Developer and podcaster
Do you realize the reason why Hallmark cards exist?
Thinking up some of the phrases and expressing them so well is something that not many people can do. That's why Hallmark cards exist - so that individuals don't have to sit down and think up the expressions that go into them, which are, in all honestly, mostly brilliant. People that can think of such well worded literature are paid a lot of money are, in truth, very intelligent people. You know, the kind of people who would read topical weblogs - very similar to the kind of people who read Slashdot, in fact, and it appears, some of them even DO read Slashdot. So, shut up - don't be jealous.A man may be remembered in two ways: his work or his posterity. His work will pass away and fade, and soon he will be nevermore recalled. His posterity wil honour him forever by its very existence.
Those who wish their lines to end with their deaths are free to do so. For what purpose did their ancestors live, though? Indeed, for what purpose do they live? Millions of years of evolution leading to a dead end: a selfish, miserable, pewling wretch. More power to him.
My congratulations to Linus. I wish him and his wife the very best. His children are certain to excel. He must be a very proud father.
Fi doesn't allow dual citizenship? Please explain©
-the wunderhorn
#define OH_YES_INDEED 1
Karma: Bored. (Thinking about resurrecting the "Anyone else is an imposter" joke.)
Yes! Ofcourse its US, the country that cant even organize a democratic election. Linus is from Finland, and im sure that thats where his heart belongs.
Motif isn't so popular anymore. I'd suggest doing the room in Qt though some around here seem to have a strong preference for Gtk.
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I don't want free as in beer. I just want free beer.
Dude, you ain't right
I dont think so. ...
:-)
I hate it if weights are measured in lbz or whatever. we have an international system for units. Me measure distances in meters, not in feet, yards
Only my 2 Euros (This are 000 dollars, because of the fucking euro...
Greets,
J.M.R.
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I.
Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam.
Apparently there were more people "in on this" (pun intended) than just Linus. I've always said that if you can't keep it in your pants then at least keep it in the family, but I didn't mean the whole family. Now we know what the Torvalds do when they aren't coding.
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Win98 sux without these 1337 toolz !!
Hence is blatantly obvious that to be an effective marketing measure, the next generation cannot called be anything other than Linus NT, skipping the 3.x series alltogether, and thereby proving that this stuff matures more rapidly than the competing product.
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Linux user since early January 1992.
Are these real?
Perhaps its just a matter of maturity.
Hi! This is the Sig, blatantly attached to the end of this comment.
It takes Torvalds 2.0 20 years to boot up.
Where are the screenshots?
well, first of all, congratulations to a new human being in this weird world.
but new humans are born every day and this one hasa nothing spectial, except that it is from the founder of the imho greatest software project in the world and helped the coolest movement since the hippies to become popular.
therefore, congratulations, linus. but i hope it will become a normal baby and not the baby of a star. but as far as i know linus (well, it's not very much) i can say that i trust him that he'll do right.
blame me for this senseless post, but i'm just in mood.
follow the shimmer,
follow the glance
you never will find it
if not at once.
it's a bad transloation of a poem in a german biik called "stein und flöte) the original:
folge dem schimmer
folge dem glanz
du findest es nimmer
findest du es nicht ganz.
those who know the book know what i mean.
cu
philippe
CU, Philippe
All generalizations are false.
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I like to watch.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
I think both you and the other poster sort-of misunderstand the motivations. The opposite of geek is not another kind of geek. But what the hell, in the interest of geek-peace, yes.
Bite my yammer.
Heh now, that's not completely fair. I watch Days of Our Lives. I don't know of any other soap opera that gets more ridiculous than that one and still seems to be attempting to be serious. Although, I haven't watched that many episodes of other ones (other than wrestling, which is definitely more soap opera for men than it is a sports oriented form of entertainment). Oh yeah, and if you think no one ever gets clotheslined on any other soap opera, you haven't seen some of the "cat fights" on those shows. Almost makes it worth watching.
Bite my yammer.
www.cs.helsinki.fi runs Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.2 OpenSSL/0.9.5 on Linux
It's not 3.0 either. See, Linus is 1.0. Kid #1 is Linus 2.0. Kid #2 is Linus 2.1. GrandKid #1 is Linus 3.0.
Shame on you. Are you suggesting she's unstable?
This is an EX-PARROT!
You are truly sad, now go play with your dolls loser. I mean really, Ghostbusters 400 times!! Isn't that Betamax wore out yet?
+4, Insightful?
-1, Crock of Shit is more like it.
not anonymous. love me.
that Mrs Torvalds has a good sense of humour. Seeing all the strange posts here, she may go looking for some of you guys. And I reckon she could kick all y'alls butts!
Best Slashdot Co
Yeah, but I'm that one.
-antipop
1st Law Of Networking: Loose ends are bad, termination is good.
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
Just so you know, "Celeste" means heavenly, celestial (duh!). Compreende? Capisce?
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Information wants to be beer, or something like that.
make mrproper
make config
make dep
make clean
make baby
sleep 23328000
make clean
make install
make modules
make modules_install
make diaper
make clean
make diaper
make clean
make diaper
make clean
...
I have NEVER complained about a story on Slashdot prior to this, but this story has gone way too far.
Nerds don't read Star, or Hello! Magizines, and I have yet to meet anyone amung even their readership who would suggest that anything ever printed in them is stuff that matters.
Linus' breeding habits are none of our buisness. He is not a movie star, and the Free Software Community is not his fan club. I am not a Linus groupie, and I doubt there are too many slashdot readers who are*.
We often see stories comming out of the mainstream press talking about "Opne Source Leaders", and the shouts ring out on Slashdot "Linus and ESR are not my leaders!" but then we fall over ourselves to gossip about their privite lives? This story does not go far to show the outside world what, exactly, it is that we are about.
* If you are a Linus groupie, the please GET A LIFE. Learn to program, write a book, take up chess, anything. And if that dosen't work, become a groupie for some pop culture item so you'd at least have company. How about Brittney? she can't sing, but she looks a hell of a lot better in a tank top than would Linus.
Jordan Bettis
``Wherever you go, there's another stupid sigfile quote.''. . . and may the Slashdot 2017 equivalent of Natalie Portman trolls completely ignore her existence.
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I am not at work. You mean you ARE? Then why are you purposefully wasting your employers time?
I can't believe that there are this many replies to such a basic topic.
We are really an opinionated group, aren't we? Plus I think a lot of people aren't doing their work.
Me? I'd be very careful who I talked to about this. It sounds like someone dangerous wrote it... someone who might snap at any moment, stalking from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 Carbine-gas semiautomatic, bitterly pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. Might be someone you've known for years... somebody very close to you. Or, maybe you shouldn't be bring me every little piece of trash you pick up.
Linux kernel fork....Torvalds family fork...I think that I see a correlation forming here.
Congrats to Linus and the entire Torvalds family
Please give your mod points to others, Im at the cap. They will appreciate it more
sorry, figured someone had to ask that here, so i did it... congratulations, enjoy this for all it's worth! sleep is probably a moot point for about the next year, but hey... who needs sleep, right?
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It's wonderful that RMS won't have any children. We didn't need any more extremely rude, heartless bastards in the world that are capable of sending letters like this.
And to think, I didn't think I could have a lesser opinion of him being that I already considered him a mentally insane, socially isolated, thoroughly unpleasant radical communist hippie. Now I have found that it was possible.
Of course, I'll get modded down for my ruthlessness, but I'm allowed to have my informed opinion. I see everyone talking about him as a great man around here... in my eyes, he's simply a man of accomplishment and a man of strong opinions. However, a great man he is not. Great men probably wouldn't flame others over baby announcements.
Congrats on the DNA code fork, Linus!
:)
(oh we weren't talking about code?
According to Finnish law (and most others, as far as I know), there is no such thing as dual citizenship. If you take another citizenship, you are required to give up the Finnish citizenship.
In practise, though, in birth people can get dual citizenship. For example people born in US territory automatically get US citizenship (so Celeste will have both US and Finnish citizenship), and Finland can't do anything about that. Hell, one of my friends has triple citizenship (mother Finnish, father Australian, born in Scotland). But you can't acquire dual citizenship.
OTOH, one of my friend's friend has acquired it through a mixup. She took UK citizenship and tried to return the Finnish passport to the Finnish embassy. There they said she would have to return it to the UK embassy. There, of course, they wouldn't accept it either. She then let it be and now has both passports - effectively dual citizenship.
I doubt, therefore I may be.
maybe.
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Now maybe some of us can get dates in 18 years (13 if you're Patrick Naughton).
or the source photos.
Of course, Linus doesn't have a patent on the source code.
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Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
I'd like to see you be 'on' Jupiter. You can be 'around' Jupiter, but you can't be 'on' it, as you can't land on a gaseous body in so much that Jupiter is one.
Not to mention that the gravity of such a huge planet would squish you to a pulp before you were very far in to the atmosphere.
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Delphis
Good for Linus' wife for getting that new release out before her husband.
(ducks to avoid the 'maters)
"Blow up your TV/Throw away your paper/
Move to the country/Build you a home"
io hymen hymnaee io
io hymen hymnaee
Me thinks that someone has been compiling...
Interesting name. I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts her birthday cake will say "cat(1)"..
If she weighed 3.32 kg on earth then she weighed 3.32 kg on jupiter, or 3.32 kg * 23 m/s^2 = 76.36 newtons * 0.225 = 17.18 lbs
is that the kernel writer spawned a child process? Good thing they didnt `kill -9` the little daemon early on in the development cycle. Few months linus will be walking around like a zombie process with no `sleep`
"sex on tv is bad, you might fall off..."
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
Now, that's news for nerds and stuff that matters. 1st, congratulations to both parents.
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Now, for the questions
1- Is the baby going to be open sourced ?
2- Is this going to delay the release of 2.4 ?
3- I'd like me a beowulf cluster of these...
Mod me down if you must, but I at least made myself chuckle writing this one.
Marriage is considered capital punishment for the theft of a goat in some third world countries...
Aye Carumba! Seesh. Ok, 2.2 :)
the nipple.
-- Eric
Just dump a link on us, please don't copy and paste the fucking article.
This may have been the case once upon a time, but it's not true anymore. If a non-american parent has kids that are US citizens, that paren't doesn't get any special rights. A kid can't sponsor his parents until he becomes an adult.
Slashdot: come for the pedantry, stay for the condescension.
But the question remains: Does he want to?
LOL .. now that was more like it, lest /. turn into a Hallmark card.
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Delphis
It would be great if Linus got his wife pregneant again, tonight. HA!
Isn't this a bit tabloid?
Hope it's not indicative of the future of Slashdot!:
NEWSFLASH: Linus Torvalds has been killed in a fatal accident in a tunnel near Helsinki.
Rumour has it that he was being pursued by individuals on motorbikes who call themselves CmdrTaco and Hemos.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Go to the library, look up Shakespeare
:-)
Or watch the movie.
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To have a TV, well at least in Europe, you need a licence. But to have a child only, two people of oposite sex.
So in accordance with the Open Source philosophy, are we gonna, um, see how this release was accomplished?
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Nope, they had 9 moth of delay...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
wow, arent you special
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-kaitos
congradulations
I suppose it would have been to easy to say "A kid could turn out to be a real daemon under those circumstances..."
:)
Your "standards" are not standards... You are the only people who use lbs, ft, miles and stuff... The rest of the world (Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America) use the metric system.
Meters, grams and Kilograms, and Kilometers are not only more widely used, but easier to calculate...
How many feet are in a mile? or how many ounces in a pound? dunno, but the metric system couldnt be easier: a Kilometer is 1000 meters and a centimeter is 0.01 meters...
No sig for the moment.
AP - Today the U.S. unveils its road plan to maintain a technical lead over the rest of the world. The announcement of Torvalds 2.0 is heralded by some as a much needed replacement of an already old component. Others commented that you should never trust a 'dot' release, and that while they might be interested in Torvalds 2.0 in the future, it is currently much too immature to transfer mission critical responsibilities to. In any event, the fact that there is continued development in the Torvalds 'family' of products is happy and good news for all.
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Shhesss, these kids are coming faster then the kernels.... (this is his third right?)
Congrats!! I guess you will now know what true sleep deprivation is. I stopped at two. When the kids start to out number the parents it gets frightning.
Good luck Linus!
~Sean
...there is at least one Linux geek "getting some". Hmmm...on second thought, DNA test please?
"Dogs and cats, living together...it's mass hysteria!"
Nope, more like 23 people.
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Check out the birthday paradox, and please don't write any code that needs to be secure. Thank you.
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/do_you_know/coincid
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Welcome to the world, 2.4 !
Both the USA and Finland allow dual citizenship.
He wouldn't lose anything by becoming a US citizen.
Congrats to the Torvalds Family!
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
Go cry about measurment standards to the rest of the EU (the only people who seem to give a rats ass).
The kid was born in the US, we are going to measure and weigh her by our standards, HAHAHAHAHA now piss off.
ps - I demand a hand recount, I don't think the height and weight are right, if for some reason you get he same outcome - recount again. After that we go to court fuckers!
Ligthen up.
it's corn
forth ?love if honk then
Well, she'll be under development for the next 17-22 years, though we should see a feature freeze before that.
-benc
The radiation also fsck's up your spelling and grammar too ;)
like, huh? I'm confused - I would have maybe marked that as funny, but not interesting or insightful (the two marks it has at the time of this writing). Are you actually serious? do you actually care if your name is around in a thousand years? I'd hope that the race is still around and that quality of life has improved (or at least not worsened), but I don't care about putting some people with my name into the "competition". I'm not aware of any great purpose in life. Perhaps you are and would like to share? Personally, I'd like to see people with a high degree of intelligence and something to contribute and the ability to be a good parent have children, and everyone else get their tubes tied. Therefore, I of course wish the Torvalds family the best.
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CP
(IMHO) The point was less about baby announcement and more about right place to do it.
;-)
;-) Anyway, THEY will spend their time and attention reading it.
It is really interesting how e-mail is much more "democratic" than phone. RMS is probably a very busy man, the same way as CEO of my 50 bln $ company is.
If you try phoning CEO, you'll get into 10 levels of secretaries who'll decide if your call/opinion is that important that deserves the CEO's personal time/attention. If you want to phone RMS, you need to get his phone that won't probably be easy too
OTOH, you can easily send an e-mail message to the aforementioned CEO, RMS, any other important person or even entire e-mail list thus having these people spend their valuable time reading whatever nonsense your inferior brain generates (or brilliant ideas you have produced to eclipse Einstein
I consider such an ability to reach people a priveledge and not a right, so no one should abuse this priveledge to make these important people feel sorry that they give anyone a chance to contact them.
Tigers respect lions, elephants and hippos. Maggots respect no one. (C) S. Dovlatov
If Linus is really the father, why does the baby look like Winston Churchill?
All I can say, is after her mother gets done teaching her martial arts, nobody better tease her on the playground about her father being a geek...
His DNA is under an NDA.
Just one more congrats post...
How does this fit under "Stuff that matters"? Would there be an announcement if Larry Wall had a child or any of a number of other computer celebrities? I mean, Linus is great, but come on.
Celeste is the daughter of Linus Torvalds, the programmer and inventor of Linux, the best operation system ever created for a computer system, which has brought to life the Open Source movements through out the world, that helped replacing faulty governments with open ideas, and caused the foundation of The Federation on 2023.
The 82 years old Linus Torvalds, told on an interview from his home in Florida: "Now that my daughter is the President, I can finally achieve world domination!"
The Context:
The kabuki-west mailing list is for planning dinners and get-togethers the San Francisco Bay Area. Somebody made the horrible mistake of posting a baby announcement, and RMS replied, at his finest.
RMS's Natalism Flame:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:14:50 -0500
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: mcuddy@ctbu.rational.com
Cc: kabuki-west@mica.berkeley.edu
Subject: Another mcuddy..
Could people please not use this list to announce information of no particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement--even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)
Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would consider this outside the scope and purpose of the list. Clearly that goes double for babies.
Of course, we have another place for announcements of new GNU programs. If some people like to read birth announcements, perhaps you should set up a suitable list or newsgroup. Perhaps rec.births? (While you're at it, start rec.deaths for obituaries--they're usually more interesting to read.)
These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.
Perhaps the people who have decided to have no children should start making proud announcements, so as to set a better example. I could start. I'm sure everyone on this list will be glad to know I don't plan to reproduce myself.
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Hey Linus, Congratz a child is the most wonderful thing in the world, it will bring you joy, happiness, and unconditional love, however you must first wade through the bit of diaper dispair, the realm of zombie land (lack of sleep provided), and multiple delays on getting ANY new kernel out ;-)
Just make sure you tell your wife how much you love her for all that she has now done for both of you, and good luck
My birthday was yesterday, how weird is that? This is pretty cool, I have the same birthday as Linus' daughter!
Congrats to Linus and his family.
-antipop
First, obligatory congrats.
Now, consider the probabilities here...
Conclusion? Man, forget John Connor. When Microsoft accidently gets involved in that super-secret Skynet project, and the Terminator units come for our collective asses, this is the person I'm expecting to save humanity. ;)
I'd elaborate, but the voices in my head say they're coming to give me some of those pretty pills again and I have to go hide.
-TBHiX-
It may be that the kid can not sponser his parents but it is true that the kid is a citizen and in practice they are at that point not going to kick him out unless he either does something illegal or becomes a burden on society. Given what I know of Linus either of these seems unlikely therefore while no he would not become a citizen because of this he would be able to stay in the country until the child decides if she wants to be American or Finnish. In any case that is how they explained it to me when I was talking with them last. Oh the comment about using abbervations was *very* funny.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
It's an allusion to Romeo and Juliet:
"Two houses, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we set our scene."
Please excuse me if this is not the exact quote. It's been quite a while since I've read that particular play.
It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away.
--Scott Adams
And from the looks of it, it is the schools server and Linuz probably won't have much of a say what they run.
"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" -THHGTTG
We've made up since this posting. Now AC and I are butt buddies.
I've nerver met Linus, but the whole hving a child thing I can certainly relate to.
Congrats
Colin
When someone yells "Stop" or goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over.
Of the tens of thousands (?) of current Slashdot readers, who here has ever talked to Mr. Torvalds? I'm not saying "who has seen him onstage at a trade show", or "who has been part of a mailing list he writes on", but who has talked to him one-on-one, face-to-face? Who knows him well enough to consider him a friend?
Ok, now the rest of you. Why do you care that he just had a kid? Is this any different than following hollywood celebrity gossip? What difference does it make to you that he just procreated? I'm sure at this point he doesn't mind having his new baby announced on Slashdot, but that's because it's good, happy news. If he has a vasectomy next week will that show up here?
He may be an amazing programmer. I don't know. I have never seen any code he's written himself. In fact, I don't particularly care to see code he's written just because he wrote it. To me it seems pretty unhealthy to fixate on one person like this.
Let the man share his personal life with his family and friends and look to your own personal life instead.
Pete Posthletwait(sp) was the only good aspect of that whole fsckin' movie.
A)Shakespeare was meant for the stage. end of conversation
B)Dicaprio and Daines couldn't act their way out of a wet paper bag.
PS - R&J was one of the worst shakespearian plays ever. It's too bad no one realizes this because they never bothered to read/see plays like MacBeth, Lear, or Much Ado...
FluX
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
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"If you love someone, set them free. If they come home, set them on fire." - George Carlin
Today, Linus' big behind-the-scenes work on a total rewite of the Linux kernel, dubbed Linux3, was accidentally deleted and his only backup was destroyed by human saliva, tattered with human bite marks. "Damn kid," was all Linus had to say on the matter.
Nothing like creating an intelligent program that needs fed GoogleBytes of data to become functional. But watching children grow is wonderful. Does anyone know if the baby was born at home with a midwife?
All pass beyond reach of medicine. None pass beyond the reach of love.
Congrats Linus and Family!
From one geek to another, here is a simple statement on babies:
They start simple: Input, Output
As they get older, they add more functionality.
Best of luck!
(From the co-creator of Kayleigh 0.45)
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Can we expect the 2.4 baby source by Christmas? I'm curious, was the baby on time? Or early? I can't imagine early. Anyone ever heard of a kernel developer producing early? :)
Nonetheless, congratulations to Linus on his most recent successful compile. Now let's just hope he remembered to include CONFIG_POTTYTRAIN_EASY in the makefile.
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2000-1991 = 9 > 4
And you sir, are a troll! =)
May she have her father's brains and her mother's looks,
The beauty of Venus and a love of Penguins,
The mind of Einstein and the fluency of Shakespere,
And may she be as loved and admired in the field she chooses as her own Papa.
May her parents have infinite patience,
The time to spend with her,
The wisdom to raise her
The courage to teach her that which she needs to know,
And may they be as proud of her accomplishments as if they were their own.
Congratulations Mr. Torvalds.
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"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
We're six months behind you in our first release, tentively named Thor, or maybe Naiad.
-aem
-a.e.mossberg
I hope the child wasn't "conceived on company time or using company equipment". That would fall under a work for hire. So think twice people before you have those office romances.
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
If a site is merely a .com (or .org or .net) it is to be assumed that its intended for everybody in the world. If it were www.slashdot.org.us your comment would be valid, but since its not, you should not complain if somebody suggests more standards-compliant measurements to be added.
There are country or language specific nerd sites, for a taste of them, to go to http://www.linux.org.mx or to http://www.linux.co.jp or even the slasdot clone for the spanish speaking community (note that its not a country specific site, so it doesnt have a country tld: http://www.barrapunto.com
No sig for the moment.
USB support is forthcoming.
"This is your world. These are your people. You can live for yourself today, or help build tomorrow for everyone."
Go to the library, look up Shakespeare (complete works of)
My best wishes for your family. Nice one :)
This is his second kid,
The first one was Patricia Miranda Torvalds,
see Linus's Webpage at http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/torvalds/
RMS should be a member of The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, if he is not already. Those of you posting knee-jerk reactions to this kabuki-west citation would do well to take a deep breath, read over the VHEMT site, and think before you submit.
Someone to love
Something to do
Something to look forward to
12 hugs a day.
sleep
fun
good news
I hope she was born in the US! We need a few smarter and kinder people here....
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Linus had a baby eh?.. Talk about an embedded linux product!
Heh, I wonder if the little bundle of joy runs on a Transmeta chip. Low energy consumption means less breast feeding (and more for the other(s)). (Okay, that was lame. Sorry, I've had a bad day.) Linus, you da man! :)
So, will the next one be Chiquita Bananda?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
And why would we care about something like this? I guess it shows that nerds can still be fertile even after 500,000 hours of exposure in front of a computer screen...
It doesn't seem to be a Finnish or Swedish name -- does Dana Sobel's "Galileo's Daughter" have anything to do with it?
Nah, they would have had to rename her once she started "developing".
I'll bet the kid has longer uptimes than 2.4.0-test11-pre3.
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
Can you guys stop with the fucking lame Linux jokes about his daughter. Try to be mroe original.
The way I see it, this is Linux version 1.0 -- which is a very oooollld story. :-)
Congratulation to the familay!
-- George
Karma stuck at 50? Add 2-5 inches.. err.. 2-5x Karmas Count to your pen1es.. err.. Karma all naturally and private
1- Is the baby going to be open sourced ? Of course. GPL is inherritable and Linux is OpenSource...
Fight Spammers!
Celeste Amanda 2.2
Linus home page
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Congratulations, Linus! How soon are you going to have her working on the Kernal?
Umm, no. This would not be Torvalds 2.0, rather, it would be Linus 3.0. If you go to his homepage, you can see Linus 2.0. No pictures of 3.0 yet, or the source photos. 8;o)
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not unless Diaper was in a Toy Story movie :)
Oh pshaw. I *liked* the DiCaprio one, what with the guns named "Rapier", "Sabre", etc. =) Plus the soundtrack for that movie was fantastic.
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The gravitational constant of protein has changed. - Turbine
Please don't buy the baby any toy penguins. I can imagine they already have thousands around the house. Enough to driver any kid crazy.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
does celestes' room have a penguin motif?
no shortage of stuffed toys, i bet.
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Will she be available in time for Thanksgiving? How much per ounce? (=
Congratulation from a Danish citizen!
Greetings Joergen
Hallmark cards are a bunch of trite rubbish. I can't believe you think they are "well worded literature". Either you are trolling or you should read more books.
nal 11
Congratulations for the Version 4
:-)
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It is 2018. Two houses, both alike in dignity, in fair Redmond where we lay our scene...
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The gravitational constant of protein has changed. - Turbine
2000 - 1991 = 9
Simple math
Maybe because he made what he made, and now he can be considered as a part of the family. I consider sending him a stuffed penguin for the baby.
CORNY>Celestix 1.0--a new Open Diaper operating system--was released today. Need I say more?
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the GENETIC JACKHAMMER!
*ahem*
wrong guy...
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From the WorldForge team, congratulations!
Ven. Jhanrato
I'd have thought that they would have named her Minix. :-)
Is her nickname going to be pronounced Celex, Celes, or Celus?
Hi! This is the Sig, blatantly attached to the end of this comment.
Congrats, Linus! My best wishes for your daughter, and a swift recovery for your wife. And happy days ahead for all of you.
But it does prove that, given enough wealth fame and power, a nerd can actually have sex.
Whew!
My mom is not a Karma whore!
What more can a guy be blessed with ! Take Care !
Linus, yes I am your father. Jedi - No, it can't be!!! Anyways, Congrates to Linus!! ;)
The meaning of the name Celest is "Angel from Heaven", for anyone who is curious its meaning.
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
Since his daughter was born in the United States, can this be a valid reason to grant Torvald's citizenship?
where can I download the diff from their previous child to this one?
Linus is forking!
Well, yes, that's where babies come from.
Oh, you said forking
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Do you know much about children of Einstein and Socrat, Sun Tzu, Paracelsius (sp?) and Thomas More?
What do you mean? He was a Catholic bishop!!
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Weight is directly affected by the host planet's gravity, therefore, her weight on Jupiter would be much greater.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
http://slashdot.org/articles/ol der
...oops, no, wait...
o/~ Join us now and share the software
if the thread digresses, you can't mod someone down for being fucking off-topic. you think the dicaprio reference had anything to do with Linus' baby in the first place????????
these are the same moderators that think people who say shit you can't make sense of are "deep"
mod this one down too. i got karma to burn.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
No, I like Celeste better. Now, how many days will it be before we see a Linux project named "Celeste"?
That would be the free, as in love, mentioned in the poll. He's just promoting free software.
Aside from the attempts at humour, do you are people computers as well? Have we reached the stage where we can consider machines to be equal of humans? Will we ever? Personally I think treating someone as a machine is uncomplimentary at the moment, but by the time she grows up anything could have happened...
And I really wish people would stop using this sort of thing for pure politics.
Keeping in mind the opens ource ddevelopment model, how many developers contributed to the development of the baby?
Patricia is Linus & Tove's first daughter.
I've heard he manages remarkable uptime.
wow. impressive. that's almost as funny as "Rasputin" by Boney M, which unfortunately has been running through my head frequently for the past few days.
-------------------- the list is long. dirac angestung gesept
(Does any one else picture a Matrix style showdown between Bill and Linus' children 20 years from now?)
I will grant that you have a point, and besides the obvious counterpoint of "What's wrong with Hero worship?", I would make the point that this is News for Nerds as it has obvious consequences with regards to future kernel development. Others have already asked "What impact will this have on the 2.4 release?" I will note, assuming my memory is accurate, that Linus's near burnout in 1998 was not that long after the birth of his first daughter. It seems to be a growing phenomina (where's that spell checker?) among tech workers as the industry expands & matures that work-life issues like balancing the next release of a kernel that an entire industry segment is based on and spending quality time with family really can pull on a person.
Just my $.02,
-"Zow"
another fork in the distro!
I had warm bawls.
Isn't there another post somewhere about the problems from sleep deprivation?
Its too bad he probably won't have the time to read all the congratulatory notices here.
Anyway my best wishes as well to all in the Linus home.
my sig is inappropriate for this post - is there a mute sig f(x)?
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
Let's all just hope for Linus' sake that she didn't come under the Badly Soiled Diaper license... ;-) A kid could turn out to be a real devil under those circumstances...
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baby(1) USER COMMANDS baby(1)
NAME
baby - create new process from two parents
SYNOPSIS
baby -sex m | f [ -name name ]
DESCRIPTION
baby is initiated when one parent process polls another
server process through a socket connection in the BSD ver-
sion or through pipes in the System V implementation. baby
runs at low priority for approximately forty weeks and then
terminates with a heavy system load. Most systems require
constant monitoring when baby reaches its final stages of
execution.
Older implentations of baby did not require both initiating
processes to be present at the time of completion. In those
versions the initiating process which was not present was
awakened and notified of the results upon completion. It
has since been determined that the presence of both parent
processes result in a generally lower system load at comple-
tion, and thus current versions of baby expect both parent
processes to be active during the final stages.
Successful completion of baby results in the creation and
naming of a new process. Parent processes then broadcast
messages to all other processes, local and remote, informing
them of their new status.
OPTIONS
-sex define the gender of the created process
-name
assign a name to the new process
EXAMPLES
baby -sex f -name "Celeste Amanda Torvalds"
Completed successfully on November 20, 2000.
Celeste's vital statistics: 7 pounds 5 oz.
The parent processes are reportedly doing fine.
SEE ALSO
cigar(6), dump(5), cry(3).
BUGS
Despite its complexity, baby only knows one signal, SIGCHLD,
(or SIGCLD in the System V implementation), which it uses to
contact the parent processes. One or both parent processes
must then inspect the baby process to determine the cause of
the signal.
The sleep command may not work as expected on either parent
process for some time afterward, as each new instance of
baby sends intermittent signals to the parent processes
which must be handled by the parents immediately.
A baby process will frequently dump core, requiring either
or both parent processes to clean up after it.
Despite the reams of available documentation on invoking and
maintaining baby, most parent processes are overwhelmed.
AUTHORS
From a man page by Joe Beck.
I was thinking more on the lines of 1995, when it was released en masse; also when it became stable enough to let out of the quarantine disk.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
The code name for this project was Linux TNG.
You just know that Linus will be trying to find ways to make changes to his latest release once it starts "dumping core".
Zildy
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
beautiful name choice for a daughter.
All the best wishes for you and your familiy. lodger
We expect the software to be on shelves in about 9 months.
Best of luck to you and your (new) family! To Life!
-Jerry
Long Live GNU/Linux!
Best wishes to the new one and the rest of the family!
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
"Congrats to Linus, Tove, Patricia and the fam. "
...
How many people were involved in making the baby? Congrats to whoever was
Ok. So it was a pretty lame joke, but offtopic?
I think not. Especially when you consider the whole ARTICLE (article condensed: "Linus' wife had a baby") has very little topic to begin with, just about anything relating to Linux, babies or open source is pretty much on topic.
And this isn't rocket science, folx. It's geek fodder. Why waste your moderation on this story AT ALL, much less to moderate posts down?
Go moderate something interesting or worthwhile.
(Or how 'bout some kneejerk "offtopic" moderation thrown at me for pointing out how utterly ridiculous this sort of moderation is.)
-The Reverend (I am not a Nazi nor a Troll)
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