Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time

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Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time

Posted by timothy on Monday June 16, 2003 @11:45PM from the send-linus-more-penguins-for-his-desk dept.

worldwideweber writes "With the announcement of the release of the 2.5.72 version of the Linux kernel came the news that Linus Torvalds will be leaving Transmeta for OSDL to work on the linux kernel full-time. The email calls this a leave of absence for about one year." Update: 06/17 17:19 GMT by T : As many readers have pointed out, the length of Linus' leave is not actually specified in this email.

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Early post! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

ep!

ooo yeah!
1. Re:Early post! by aug24 · 2003-06-16 23:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Not necessarily, he is after all an anonymous coward.
  More likely he was there hitting reload... reload...reload... with his inpirational message on the clipboard ready to paste 'n' post.
  Sad isn't it.
  J.
  
  --
  You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
2. Re:Early post! by Alan+Partridge · 2003-06-17 00:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  But the REAL question is: "Is FP-ing actually sadder than Slashdot user stalking?"
  
  I've always thought a bit of light trolling or crapflooding could be quite amusing, personally.
  
  Metatrolling is best of all, though!
  
  --
  That was classic intercourse!
frosty by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

piss
Amazing! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Cool. Linus is a top bloke.

FIST PROST!
Fp bitches!!!! Get in!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No, I didn't pay a bean.

And this is my first ever first post! How many times have I put 'fp' before and then been beaten by someone. Oooooo yeah this has just made my day / year / life
1. Re:Fp bitches!!!! Get in!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  have you considered getting a *real* life?
  
  it's pretty sad to call that a life
Re:great by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nothing new. Linus crashes more than Windows
This... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

is a fucking microsoft conspiracy if i ever saw one.

This has been a Microsoft Conspiracy Update.
Jealousy by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-16 23:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You're just jealous you didn't get the first post biotch!!
The first post was MINE oooooo yeah
1. Re:Jealousy by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  i'm at work, so I get paid to try to first post!
2. Re:Jealousy by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Yes but unlike me you will never succeed, you useless pieceashit!!
  
  Ooooo yeah first post! Get the goodness in ya bitches!
MOD PARENT UP!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Now THAT was funny!
Re:Site slow -- AC mirror by Disevidence · 2003-06-17 00:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You know, the more original article trolls, who would post it early on a site that would be slashdotted, were funny and witty.

However, article trolling has gotten out of hand. You're addition "boring : like slashdot" was uncreative and lame. Its time to end the article trolling. It has grown old, and is no longer creative, witty, or humorous.

Yours Sincerely, a Trolling Observer.

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Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Linux will not succeed on the desktop until... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1. Remove the elitist scum on XFree
2. Redesign the windowing, redesign the starburst of config files, and file dirs and generally clean up the shitty structure. Its like file debri.
3. Speed up development its too slow. Maybe we need more branches on the source tree to get more "INNOVATION"
4. Where is the experience ? Usability? Maintainability? Please, head up ass egotistical users can just stay in the back room wanking over theyre shell. They are the problem that linux is NOT on the desktop.
Re:Site slow -- AC mirror by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sir: YHBT.
Why I am against abortions by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 00:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was 19 and pregnant by my live-in boyfriend, 10 years older than me. He said he would leave if I kept the baby. I felt my body transforming, my tummy getting round, my breasts changing. Planned Parenthood, the only place I knew to go, said, "Your pregnancy test is positive, but 'positive' is all in your perspective, isn't it?" They figured I was 8 weeks pregnant, but later said I was further along than what they had guessed. They assured me it was just a blob of tissue, confirming what I had been taught in health class at school. I wanted to have children, and I was assured by the counselors that I could always have a baby later, when I was 'ready' for one. I chose abortion knowing nothing of what it was other than a way to keep my boyfriend. He brought me to the abortion clinic and paid for the abortion.
One year later I had to have an ovary and fallopian tube removed because of a cyst "the size of a baby's head," according to the doctor. It had formed around "pieces of hair, like eyebrows, and skin." A year after that I became pregnant again. Because of the scar tissue left behind by the abortion and subsequent cyst, my baby was trapped in my one remaining fallopian tube. I had married the boyfriend by this time, but he still didn't want the baby. Without knowing this pregnancy was 'ectopic' I decided to carry to term, despite my husband's objections. The doctor didn't diagnose the problem until 10 weeks into the pregnancy, when I was in the emergency room puking my guts out. The baby had to be removed to save my life.
I am now completely sterile.
1. Re:Why I am against abortions by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 01:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Abortion's cool.. huhuhuh... huuhuuhuuh
  Yeah.. hhehhe.. cool!
This is funny by stinky+wizzleteats · 2003-06-17 00:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A troll recently advised me to get a real job - Like Linus.
Re: Linux will not succeed on the desktop until.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-17 01:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Linux Desktop will never be like Windows Desktop because nobody is interested in removing features like virtual desktops, multiple windowmanagers, etc. from XFree86.

So, stick on your pathetic technology that you've learned to click so good and shut the fsck up.