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Linus /leen'us'/ Or /lin'us'/, Not /li:'nus/ Linus Torvalds, The Author Of Linux.
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Linus /leen'us'/ or /lin'us'/, not /li:'nus/
Linus
Torvalds, the author of Linux. Nobody in the hacker culture
has been as readily recognized by first name alone since Ken
(Thompson).
Related:
demigod n. A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputatio
and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
Brief History Of Linux (#23) Linus Torvalds certainly wasn't the only person to create their own operating system from scratch.
Other people working from their leaky basements did create their own systems and now they are sick that they didn't become an Alpha Geek like Torvalds or a Beta Geek like Alan Cox....
brown-paper-bag bug n. A bug in a public software release that is so embarassing that the author notionally wears a brown paper bag over his head for a while so he won't be recognized on the net.
Entered popular usage after the early-1999 release of the first Linux 2....
Brief History Of Linux (#19) Boy meets operating system The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ.
of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix & C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting Minix to work properly on a Sun box....
Microsoft Fights Linux -- By Contributing Kernel Patches If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
.. and then destory 'em. That seems to be the new Microsoft strategy for dealing with Linux....
Increased Electricity Consumption Blamed on Linux WASHINGTON, D.
C. -- The US Department of Energy claims Linux is partially responsible for the increased demand for electricity during the past year....
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus Torvald
vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */ * * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
) */ 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/lib/vsprintf.c...