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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: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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  2. 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.