Re: [Slightly OT] Linux's 10th Birthday
hi ya peter...
there's several linux birthday celebrations going on...
around the world...
http://www.Linux10.org
guess the dayz when there was just 10 people gathered around
Linus is long since gone ...was only 5 or so years ago too
have fun
alvin
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> 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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