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LWN: Loki Hack 1999: 48 hours with no sleep and no end of fun

“The Loki Hack was a tremendous success for all the
participants,
which came from as far away as Germany. Setup as
a contest, the hackers took a look at the hundreds of thousands of
lines of code involved and figured out that helping each out was
the only way that anything was going to be accomplished.”

“And a lot was achieved! Free binaries with the changes and
modifications will be made available within a week or so…”

“Everyone had a great time. The code was so convoluted that the
idea of competing with each other for the contest was quickly put
aside in favor of working together. They helped each other out,
learned from each other and got ideas from each other. “The hack
was why we came.” The energy was tremendously high…’

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