Neal Stephenson. A debian user?! [was: Re: is this a debian list?]
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:53:25PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> > Someone! quick! say something funny before Steve unsubscribes!
This is likely in the archives somewhere already, but anyway, I think the
curiosa void needs to be filled. And quickly! Those who have already seen
this know where their 'd' keys lie. :)
On with the story.
I've just read a nice article by one Neal Stephenson (of /Snow Crash/ and
/Cryptonomicon/ fame) where he states his reasons for using debian. It was
written in Jan 1999 and I first read it around then, but I was not a debian
user, nor had I heard of Stephenson nor his books then. My old housemate
recommended /Snow Crash/ to me last year which I enjoyed very much, and he
sent me an email the other day pointing to the aforementioned article. It
was quite a shock to put the two and two together. Anyway, for those who
haven't seen it, it can be found at:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
and is titled "In the Beginning was the Command Line." In it he refers to
bug #6518 which I also found interesting, having been submitted by about the
only author whose books I have actually finished reading (I get bored with
fiction pretty easily). And in Jan 1997 too! He's been using debian longer
than me! Bastard... :)
Pete
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