[Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday (fwd)

[John (EBo) David]

or just party from 8/25 to 9/17...  The martigra (sp?) of the computer
world!

  EBo --


"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> moin, moin,
> 
> party research :).
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:37:53 +0200
> From: Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu@im.se>
> To: Debian user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: [Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday
> Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:41:17 -0700
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> Please excuse me if this is slightly OT, but it's important stuff!!
> 
> I went to Linus' book-signing in Stockholm yesterday and finally
> got to meet our hero in person.
> 
> The event was organized as a kind of "press conference", where the
> "press" were the people waiting to buy a signed copy of the book.
> My guess, from looking at the number of "got root?" t-shirts versus
> the rest, is that of about 200 people present, less than half were
> actual Linux enthusiasts, the rest being those merely interested in
> the Linux phenomenon, and/or waiting to meet Linus.
> 
> We got the chance to ask Linus some questions, but as soon as people
> started to get technical he asked us to tone it down to a more
> general level. So I asked him the question I posed here back in
> January (with no response): "When exactly is Linux's 10th birthday?"
> 
> Linus thought for a moment, then said "Well it depends who you ask:
> My first posting to comp.os.minix, when I announced that I was
> working on Linux, was on August 25th, but the first time I made the
> souce code available for version 0.01 was September 17th. I would
> say, if you want to be really certain, you should party on both
> days."
> 
> So it sound as if Linux, like the Queen of England, has two
> birthdays. Linus apparently has no strong feelings about which
> is the "official" one, so... Party, Party!
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter Hugosson-Miller
> "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"
> 
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