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

[Lisa Kachold]

I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a
contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2

That's me in the front row:  http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/

There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Will_The_Fake_Linus_Torvalds_Please_Stand_Up_VIDEO


On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>   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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