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Linus Goes Hollywood At Pre-Oscars Party

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the getting-his-mad-props dept.

alphadogg writes "For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network, you'll be heartened to know that the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds, and his wife Tove were among the beautiful people at Saturday's pre-Oscars Night Before Party in Beverly Hills. Torvalds blogged about the Oscars party experience Monday, recounting a series of awkward encounters with movie stars."

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  1. Linux by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Funny

    the Father of Linux, Linux Torvalds

    Ahh, good old Linux Torvalds. I wonder if he brought his son Android, Andy for short.

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    1. Re:Linux by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

      Uh, no. My wife is quite attractive; people used to tell her all the time that she should be a model, and she even had an offer to go to work for a strip club (she declined). My sister in law is 7 years younger and even more attractive than my wife, and has noticeably larger breasts than my wife's 36-D's. She also dresses quite provocatively, and in many ways in nicer to me and more compatible with me than my wife, you has the exact opposite personality as I do. In short, it's unnerving because "foking" her is something that has crossed my mind...

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  2. Not Hollywood's Fault by Petersko · · Score: 4, Funny

    "For those who feel like Linux and open source have been slighted by Tinseltown in the face of its embrace of Facebook and The Social Network"

    Well stop sending scripts in EMACS and insisting that Hollywood attach them to the end credits. Pilots in theora don't help either.

    1. Re:Not Hollywood's Fault by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 2

      Actually, Hollywood is just an Emacs mode, which uses Eliza as a back-end to generate scripts.

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    2. Re:Not Hollywood's Fault by greed · · Score: 3, Funny

      I see. Is it because of your mother that you say, "Hollywood is just an Emacs mode"?

    3. Re:Not Hollywood's Fault by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I implemented my script as a lazy-evaluated list. You can seed it with starting values like "Once upon a time" or "It was a dark and stormy night" or even "I'm sorry Mr. Pizza Man, I ran out of money. Is there any other way me and my 20 lesbian sorority sisters can pay for that Italian Sausage?"

      It'll keep giving you new lines based on the ones before it. The only boundary condition I put on the list length was the eventual heat death of the universe (likelihood of being eating by a grue = 1)

      It got its trial run on the TV show Lost. The producers would just keep requesting lines until they filled their time slot. Then they'd just cut to black and play an ominous screeching violin sound at the end of each episode and call it "suspense." It had a couple bugs though where it would get stuck in these self-consistent story loops that made it seem like there was some deeper meaning. We'd have to go in and tweak something every now and then just to get it to move on. The most embarrassing error was where it would dump out 4 8 15 16 23 42 repeatedly which was just some garbage in memory after reading an unterminated string.

  3. Re:"Linux" Torvalds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You misspelled his name:
    GNU/Linux Trovalds

  4. I Can Identify by hduff · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've met a few famous people and, unless they spend a lot of time being famous for just being themselves, they really don't look or act a lot like the characters they play and are famous for. Take them out of context and you'll hesitate before calling them by name.

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    1. Re:I Can Identify by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 2

      I figured this one out shortly after watching Eddie Murphy's stand up when I was a teenager. When I was younger, I saw Murphy in various Disney/kids movies...then I heard the things he said in his "adult" comedy and figured out what "acting" meant.

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  5. I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta... by Xyverz · · Score: 2

    So it's not close to being in Hollywood with the movie stars, but I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble, Linus is it. He's a nice guy; it's great to see him get to do things like this from time to time.

  6. Re:"Linux" Torvalds? by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

    Uh, that should be "GNU/Linux Torvalds. Please turn in your geek card on the way out...

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  7. Re:I was at the party too! by Locke2005 · · Score: 2

    Warning: goatse is NSFW!

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  8. Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. by corbettw · · Score: 2

    I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble

    It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.

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  9. It starts with an Oscar pre-party.. by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 2

    Next thing you know he'll be in the tabloids rumored to have snorted blow off Lindsay Lohan's ass.

    1. Re:It starts with an Oscar pre-party.. by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Blow? Lindsay Lohan? Please.

      I heard poured hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants!

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  10. Earthquake by bugs2squash · · Score: 2

    I sit in my office (which used to be in the basement, now it's a room above the garage)

    I think he should get out of there now, before it moves even further

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  11. Re:Not the father. by icebraining · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Linux," by itself is the kernel. That's why Stallman makes the distinction between Linux and GNU/Linux. So he is in fact the father of Linux.

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  12. Re:What a fucking non-story. by Threni · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And since the terrible, terrible visual update to Slashdot they've lost the `news for nerds - stuff that matters` tag. And not before time; this story, like so many others here recently, is neither.

  13. Re:I got to meet Linus when I worked at Transmeta. by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2

    I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble

    It's Hollywood, so yes, there's only one guy out there who's humble.

    Actually most of them are. I'm sorry to suck the fun out of this well-established generalization, but this reputation is something that scared me when I first started working on movies. Instead of working with egotistical prima donnas like I expected, instead I met a lot of kind people who were eager to help me out. Maybe it's just because they're nice people or maybe it's just because movie making only really works when people work as a team. Couldn't tell you. What I can tell you is that I've dealt with a good deal less ego in this career than I did working at web startups back in the dot-com days.

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  14. Re:"Linux" Torvalds? by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2

    Writing it as anything but dysxelia is -1 too.

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  15. Windows fans by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't despair. I'm sure I saw Ballmer there.

    No, wait. That was Shrek. Never mind.

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    1. Re:Windows fans by Ocker3 · · Score: 2

      It's funny because none of us Windows people really care about Ballmer, except aboput when he's going to leave.

  16. Re:Not the father. by VTI9600 · · Score: 2

    No, GNU-slash-Linux is not a distinction...it is a moniker he asks people to use because he rightfully wants the GNU Project to get the recognition it deserves. When people colloquially refer to "Linux", they are referring to a complete operating system (i.e. GNU-slash-Linux). The entire concept of a free-as-in-speech operating system was pioneered by Stallman. The GPL was created by Stallman. Linux (the kernel) would not have been free if the GPL hadn't come first. People (except the Debian folks) drop the GNU/ because it doesn't roll off the tounge quite so well as just saying "Linux". And others, such as our friends at Canonical, drop the word "Linux" altogether. None of this changes the reality of what Stallman created.