Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.
In debian-user Michael Beattie wrote:
>I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's
>first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus
>Torvalds.
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Do you yearn for the days when men were men, and wrote their own
device drivers...
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<MODE="Altavista simple query, third match">
> From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
> Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
> Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
> Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
> Organization: University of Helsinki
>
> Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
> their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
> to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
> finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
> nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
> for you :-)
It's about 33% into <URL:http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/linux_history_1.html>
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I never knew his second name was Benedict...
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