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Linus on Linux in 1994
Vrallis writes "Ten years ago this month, Linux Journal christened their maiden issue with an interview with Linus Torvalds. It is definitely worth the read, and worth some reflection on just how far Linux has come in the last decade."
"In 10 years, there will be a linux oriented website capable of taking down the server this interview is hosted on."
...Beowulf Journal.
"What the hell is an aluminum falcon?"
Since then Linux has traveled around the sun ten times but its still in the same old place.
I guess that's what happens when you run servers on Linux, instead of stable, guaranteed solutions like Windows and Unixware
Bill Gates: "Linus who?"
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"In 1994, Linux was mostly a toy OS. Really not much of anything more than a bootloader. A shell of an operating system."
"Ten years later... well, it's basically the same thing, but it's been ported to every damn computer out there!"
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
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Christening the maiden. Why does that sound so very naughty to me?
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i think its funny that people put profanities in their code, but i think its even funnier that someone codded a program to look for swear words in code!
lol
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"and worth some reflection on just how far Linux has come in the last decade."
Well for one, penguin awareness across the globe is way up.
...is it really about the story or just trying to show how slash whips phpNuke's ass?
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well, fuck aint as popular as it used to be, but there's crap and shit all over. It's spreading more rapidly than our holy penguin!
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
The site admins just finish blowing out the candles, and slashdot blows out the server.
...
Our work is done here
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
why does it matter that you work for the government and have multiple t3? get back to work and quit wasting my tax dollars.
notice the sudden increase of crap in 2.4.2 . that must be when they add the stolen unix code.
Bill Gates: "Destroy him, my scobots"
I was completely riveted by the portion of the interview that detailed the night on which Linus broke into SCO headquarters to steal their intellectual property.
It's nice to know that 10 years later, he probably still hasn't gone through that entire cache of toilet paper.
Due to the pressure that the open source world has placed on Microsoft, the Redmond based giant has announced it will now include a swear count feature to rival that of the Linux survey tool for source code statistics. Betatests of the software have revealed that the source code for Windows XP contains the word 'crap' appears on a scale ten times larger than that of the linux kernel. Most instances of the word crap however, are not located in the comments of the source code, but come mostly from names of most functions, procedures, and objects - thus giving an accurate description of their value.
It won't matter because humanity will be enslaved by aliens.
Hey, don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
No, no, you didn't finish the couplet...
"A new religion that'll bring Bill to his knees
Black Penguin, if you please..."
In article peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
/can/
>adam@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
>> I'm frustrated because I'm too cheap to buy a decent OS for my 386 and GNU OS
>> isn't out yet and I have to run this silly little loader called MSDOS.
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>Well, check out comp.os.minix. As the Arch-OS/2 fiend Peter Busser has informed
>me, there's a 386 kernel called linux under development in Finland. You need
>MINIX to bring it up, though.
Happily this isn't true any more (needing minix, that is). Linux
be used without minix, but it's not a tool for a user yet. Hacker-
material (ie I've got gcc, uemacs etc, but no real utils). Wait for
Hurd if you want something real. It's fun hacking it, though (but I'm
biased).
Linus "finger me for more info" Torvalds
(torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
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Hehe, I wonder if he is still waiting for Hurd to do something real.
I wouldn't know. I haven't seen the source!
A quasi-religious organization will spring up around technology. In that theology geeks are the clergy, who are here to introduce the common man to "the clue."
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And that end is in sight now, right guys?
Guys?
-Chris
... that Linus was not realizing that he was revolutionizing and empowering the porn industry :)
Linux would benefit more if people would look at it as simply an OPERATING system, rather than a (religious) BELIEF system.
In the name of the Kernel, and the Module and the Holy Source, Amen.