Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux"

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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I remember it well

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in 1991, before the days of slashdot, before the days of the web even. Anygeek who was anyone was using Minix at the time.

Out of the blue, a relitively unknown norwegian by the name of Linus Torvalds announced his new OS design on geek site Kuro5hin. What joy, to finally see a GPL'ed protected mode OS. Of course, not all of us were happy. Tannenbaum was a little sceptical of the modern untested microkernel architecture, and the few remaining Microsoft zealots were advocating the (currently vapor) Windows NT, but we all rejoiced.

Of course, that version was far from complete. It had no driver supprot, and the only way to connect was through a remote x-term, but time went on. The open source philosophy allowed us all to add to it, and finally we produced what we have today.

must be a US citizen?

[rneches]

Does anyone know why one must be a US citizen to see this talk? The site doesn't explain, it just points out that you need to bring credentials, such as a driver's license, passport, or green card to prove citizenship. This struck me as odd - is it a funding thing, or is there "discussion of non-exportable cryptosystems", or other such nonsense?

Oh well. Sorry to those not from the US who might want to see this talk.