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

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> you smelled his chair?

  were all wondering: what did it smell like?

  -jmz

>
> interesting :-P
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>> 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 There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes: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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