OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

[Joshua Zeidner]

  I saw this on slashdot I think.

  Long Live Linus.

  -jmz

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> from
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11 :
>> [quote:]
>> <blockquote>
>>
>> Linux: 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?"
>> </blockquote>
>> --
>> Mike Schwartz
>
> It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
>  http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus -- (which is
> pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the /.
> article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago" link).
>       I just read that longer item (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
>  Pretty interesting.
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
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