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Happy Birthday, Linus
Glyn Moody writes "Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19 years ago, on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the holidays, Linus rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his first PC: a DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte hard disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the fastest supercomputers, and is starting to find its way into more and more smartphones — not to mention everything in between. What would the world look like had he spent his money on something else?"
That's easy: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win31
Yeah, but it would have that crappy Finnish porn.
If linux wouldn't bought a computer, this year would be probably the year GNU\Hurd would be finished. Gnome KDE etc would probably not exist.
2010 will be the year of Solaris on the Desktop!
but when you use just the single name "Linus", most people think of the blanket-carrying kid in Peanuts.
That's a hell of a blanket statement for you to make.
Perhaps better spent on a $699 license from SCO. /sarc
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Yeah, but it would have that crappy Finnish porn.
You don't care for Tom of Finland? To each his own.
It's GNU/Linus, you insensitive clod!
Everyone knows "42" is the real milestone.
... och sedan ska han skjutas, i en skottkärra fram!
send + more == money?
I''ll go for a wild guess here, but I bet you're still 10 years younger :)
If you were to tell me that Little Endianness was simply the result of someone putting something on an overhead projector the wrong way, I'd believe you (because it seems like an extremely fucking stupid idea otherwise: "2 ^ 16 equals five-hundred-thirty-six, sixty-five thousand"
If you were to tell me that the Pentium was really 64-bit, but the fabricators never hooked up the address pins because they never got the memo, I'd believe you.
No doubt, x86 is the cheapest, fastest and most prevalent CPU in computers today, and probably always will be, but fuck me if it doesn't look like the biggest kluge in the world.
Well, for one thing, /. would not be filled with a bunch of whiny bitches.