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Current Newswire: Sifting Through Billions and Billions of Bytes Miro 2.0 - Watch TV Podcasts and Videos in HD Hands off the Gimp Course: Using LDAP Bazaar for Subversion users, part 1 - the basics Firefox 3.5 - A Really Impressive Release Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs Tiny Core Linux 2.1 Review 5 Top of the Line Twitter Desktop Clients for Linux SECURITY: How Microsoft benefits from Conficker Security Engineer (PA) Next Step Systems US-PA-Philadelphia Post A Job | Post A Resume The Wit and Wisdom of Linus Torvalds Nov 17, 2008, 18 :31 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3104 reads) (Other stories by David M. Williams) "On the phenomenal success of Linux, Linus is justly proud. Back in 1991 he launched Linux with the comment "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won"t be big and professional like GNU) for 386 (486) AT clones." How little did he realise just what he had set in motion. "Fast forward to today, and Linus now shares the secret to a life of adventure and fame: "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it :)" "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." Complete Story Related Stories: 16 videos from the Linux Kernel Summit(Nov 17, 2008) Video: The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds(Nov 10, 2008) The Top 10 Greatest Geeks of All Time(Nov 10, 2008) Torvalds: Real Quality Means Taking it Personally(Oct 28, 2008) Torvalds Talks About His Brand New Blog(Oct 08, 2008) Linux Turns 17(Oct 06, 2008) Torvalds: No Picnic to Become Major Linux Coder(Aug 18, 2008) Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects(Aug 05, 2008) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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