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Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-seventh-day-he-rested dept.

Paul J. White writes: "Everyone in Silicon Valley will probably be there when Linus Torvalds lectures on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 6 PM. It's bound to be interesting, so sign up early!"

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  1. Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful
    Actually PowerPoint is one of the best Microsoft applications.

    I could imagine writing something with StarOffice word processor instead of MS Word but when it comes to making slides there's just no alternative to PowerPoint.

  2. Re:must be a US citizen? Can you read? by paul7e · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please don't be an alarmist unless you've actually looked at the site, the event is open to all.

    However, the Museum is currently housed on an old military facility (that's still owned by the military), so you need picture ID.

    Non-citizens, like it says multiple times on the site, just need to bring their passport or Green Card. But everybody needs to make advance reservations so they can run you through whatever security database they use.

    paul

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  3. Why is this on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful


    It is so very local that it is useless to post here.

    I wouldn't have mind a transcript or so when it is over, but this is ridiculous!!!

  4. Re:Religion by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I miss the days when operating systems ran programs, and weren't political statements.

    What? You were one of the MULTICS developers?

  5. Re:Seen it before by SurfsUp · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Linus just happened to be in the right place at the right time

    And he happened to be the right person. I've known a lot of technical people, but I never knew one who could lead a project like this as well as Linus. And don't forget his legendary debugging prowess. Oh, and his intuitive sense of where to lead the design. Ah, and the charisma. Err, I almost forgot about his non-partisan stance. Um, how about his ability to use English better than most native speakers? Well, you get the idea. Pretty hard to find another Linus if you ask me.

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  6. Re:Linus' speech: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    all essential services such as health care and education must be available in Swedish.

    I wonder when the US government will acknowledge the rights of the Spanish speaking population in the same way.

  7. Re:Seen it before by DrXym · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The thing is HURD was announced before Linux so RMS really has little excuse for the current state of the world.


    I suspect that part of the reason he's so bitter about Linux ("call it GNU/Linux!") is because Linux took off like a rocket while HURD wallows in obscurity, never likely to be more than an evolutionary dead end.


    That's not to say HURD is bad, it's just that Linux is and was more popular - partly because Linus is such a strong leader, partly because the kernel is so easy to get into and partly because it actually works dammit.