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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. Linus' speech: by odaiwai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Hello, My names Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'a funny thing happened in my bedroom when I was a student'".

    Of course, in the original Swedish:
    "Hellu, My nemes Leenoos Turfelds und I prunuoonce-a Leenoox es 'a foonny theeng heppened in my bedruum vhee I ves a stoodent'". Bork Bork Bork!

    dave "chef"

  2. Moderator abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Danger! The post claims that there's Microsoft program that's lightyears ahead of anything similar on Linux. Must moderate it down at once!