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Linux Is 10 Today
genixia noted that the BBC was the first to note that
Linux has turned 10 today. Happy birthday and congrats to the hackers whose labor pains keep giving us new tarballs.
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Soon it will be puberty...
Je t'aime Stéphanie
"never crashed"? Screw you! I had crashes many times a day, and not once did Linux detect that my fan had come loose.
Last post!
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open source is an intellectual property destroyer
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft executive, Feb 2001
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free
- Linus Torvalds
Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable from Linux
- Jim Dennis
Linux... Find out what you've been missing
while you've been rebooting Windows NT.
- anon
See Linux run...
See Windows run... scared.
- anon
Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck
when it starts manufactoring vaccum cleaners.
- car bumper sticker
I thought that aliens would take over the world,
but I never suspected the Finns.
- garf@roadum.demon.co.uk
How do you power off this machine?
- Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi,
and after using the machine for several months.
The most important design issue...
is the fact that Linux is supposed to be fun...
- Linus Torvalds,
at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux
Open-Source Architecture requires neither Windows nor Gates
- Malcolm Macsween
Linux - What itch do you want to scratch today?
- Ulrik Haugen
With Linux there is no Bill to pay
- Maurice Fonhof
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (possibly not talking about Linux!)
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have
never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph.
They'd be a lot more careful about what they said if they had.
- Linus Torvalds
Linux represents a best-of-breed Unix
- Vinod Valloppillil
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
- Usenet signature
Consumers love it
- Vinod Valloppillil
The best thing about GNU/Linux is the people who use it.
- Kenneth W. Melvin
Most of the primary apps that people require when they
move to Linux are already available for free. This includes
web servers, POP clients, mail servers, text editors, etc
- Vinod Valloppillil
Don't throw your PC out of the window,
throw Windows out of your PC and run linux!
- Gernot Kerschbaumer
Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively
more credible argument that OSS software is at least as robust
- if not more - than commercial alternatives.
- Vinod Valloppillil
If the box says ``Windows 95 or better'', it should run on Linux, right?
- anon
Linux can win
- Vinod Valloppillil
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"I got a rock."
The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
joshua:/proc# echo "Happy Birthday" >/proc/kcore
:-)
joshua:/proc#
Doesn't seem to make him pleased...
joshua:/proc# telinit "Happy Birthday"
Usage: telinit 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu
well at least we get an answer
Happy Birthday to you Linux !
Thanks to all who made it possible.
Long live Linux !
in a couple years Tux is gonna start growing hair in strange places and start pursuing other "penguins" :-0
Would you expect it to detect when you pour coffee into your keyboard as well?
Let's see.
(Pours coffee into neighbors keyboard
Ah, I see the alert coming right now.
(Watches magic smoke rise)
"10 years ago, internet wasn't something 99.99% of the people knew about"
Ah, the good old days. :\