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.

Comments

Re:Except its not 2.0!

[Cyberdyne]

Your such a jerk! A guy goes and has a baby and you slashdot his web server! Nice going, I hope your happy.

It should be OK - Linus is running IIS 5 with the latest Service Pack, so it can hold up to any load. ;-)

Obligatory schedule comment

[slickwillie]

At least this was delivered on time.

Re:obligatory wise cracks.

[Zachary Kessin]

> I'd like me a beowulf cluster of these...

OK but you get to change them *ALL*.

Mozel Tov to the Torvolds' Family!

The Cure of the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

Syntax

[gregh76]

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
...

obligatory wise cracks.

[Cedric C. Girouard]

Now, that's news for nerds and stuff that matters. 1st, congratulations to both parents.


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.

Congrats

[Private Essayist]

Congrats to the Torvalds family!

So in accordance with the Open Source philosophy, are we gonna, um, see how this release was accomplished?
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Nope

[redhog]

Nope, they had 9 moth of delay...

New from Norway Torvalds 2.0!!

[powerlord]

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.

RMS and baby announcments

[FattMattP]

This reminds me of an amusing email from RMS on the evils of Natalism

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.

Re:RMS and baby announcments

[/dev/kev]

I see. So, you selfishly wish to further your own genes and traits as a method of continuing your own existence past your death, and this somehow makes you better than RMS? RMS has done a substantial amount for the good of all people in his GNU software, but somehow anyone who can have kids is doing more than that?

Let me ask, how many people are aware of your work in producing offspring? How many aware of RMS's work? What has your producing offspring achieved, for the good of humanity? What was your 6th generation gradnfather's name? Was he anything like you? Will your 6th generation grandchildren know who you were? Will they know what you did? Will they find that you had children in any way remarkable? Will any of your traits be recognizable in them, or will they be diluted from all your descendants mixing to produce more descendants? Your descendants may be huge in number, but they're also a lot of other people's descendants.

Those who wish their lines to end with their deaths are free to do so. For what purpose did their ancestors live, though?

Same as you, to selfishly propagate their genes. Perhaps you should be so lucky that a descendant of yours may do something worthwhile with their life, rather than just sustaining and reproducing.

Indeed, for what purpose do they live?

To make a difference, to help people other than those directly related to them. To do something with their lives, rather than just try to be "remembered" by reproducing. Just about anyone can reproduce (as evidenced by the large number doing exactly that), but not just anyone can change the world.

Millions of years of evolution leading to a dead end: a selfish, miserable, pewling wretch.

How is *your* end any better than his?

I find it highly ironic that RMS is fighting to secure the freedoms and rights of society, for people just like your kids.

Aim to find meaning in your life through yourself, and your own actions, not your offspring. Don't worry about being remembered because in the end, everyone and everything will be forgotten, and those who count will be the ones who made good use of their time here.

And of course, I have no objections to anyone having kids, only to those who think doing so makes them better than people who choose not to. Congrats to the Torvald family.

This could get interesting.

[TBHiX]

First, obligatory congrats.

Now, consider the probabilities here...

1. Her Dad is Linus. This means she's likely to have better than average intelligence and, quite probably, excellent coding skills. And if she gets even a fraction of his personality, she'll have charm.
2. Her mom is a martial arts champion. This implies she'll probably learn to open the really big cans of whoop ass. ;) from what I've seen, she'll probably be a looker too.
3. Thanks to her old man working for Transmeta, she'll probably have access to enough funds to fully realize her potentials.

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-

Argh. Hero worship

[Merk]

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.

A Blessing for the Blessed

[doublem]

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.

www.matthewmiller.net

And of course the inevitable...

[ChenKenichi]

It is 2018. Two houses, both alike in dignity, in fair Redmond where we lay our scene...

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Horrible pun

[dmuth]

I'd have thought that they would have named her Minix. :-)

Re:Oh no!

[Mike Schiraldi]

Linus is forking!

Well, yes, that's where babies come from.

Oh, you said forking
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Re:So now can Torvalds be a US citizen?

[SquadBoy]

She is a citizen by default. Unemployed people on welfare have been able to stay because of this. IANAL but my wife is from overseas and I have talked to those wonderful (not) people from the INS more that I care to admit. IMHO if he plays it right yes it could.

Re:Lazy fuck

[Anonymous Coward]

I've heard he manages remarkable uptime.

God forbid she's BSD licensed Re:Congrats

[StandardDeviant]

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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*sniff* ... *sniff*

[Zildy]

You just know that Linus will be trying to find ways to make changes to his latest release once it starts "dumping core".

Zildy