Linus to speak on "The Origins of Linux" 102
Paul J. White writes: "Everyone in Silicon Valley will probably be there when Linus Torvalds lectures on "The Origins of Linux" in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 6 PM. It's bound to be interesting, so sign up early!"
Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? (Score:1)
on the East coast will get to this. Shame. My
comapny's releasing their quarterly results the
same day. I'd rather listen to Linus.
Re:you mean, instead of reading the book? (Score:1, Funny)
Linus - NASA (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Linus - NASA (Score:1)
Linus' speech: (Score:1, Offtopic)
Of course, in the original Swedish:
"Hellu, My nemes Leenoos Turfelds und I prunuoonce-a Leenoox es 'a foonny theeng heppened in my bedruum vhee I ves a stoodent'". Bork Bork Bork!
dave "chef"
Re:Linus' speech: (Score:1, Insightful)
I wonder when the US government will acknowledge the rights of the Spanish speaking population in the same way.
Re:Linus' speech: (Score:2)
Well, surprising though it may sound, There is a minority of Swedish-speakers in Finland and Linus is one of them. You could check out his book 'Just For Fun' for a more detailed explanation of why this is so.
dave
Seen it before (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, the time was ripe for a project like this, since Andrew wasn't willing to accept any patches to his system, effectively preventing the inclusion of virtual memory, multitasking and a useful filesystem. Stallman made the point that any usable ase for an OS would have been successsful at that point, as long as the developer was willing to accept people's additions. Linus just happened to be in the right place at the right time
It's funny to think that, had RMS had more foresight, we'd all be using HURD today, and Linus would be an unknown doctoral student/graduate at Helsinki university!
Re:Seen it before (Score:3, Insightful)
And he happened to be the right person. I've known a lot of technical people, but I never knew one who could lead a project like this as well as Linus. And don't forget his legendary debugging prowess. Oh, and his intuitive sense of where to lead the design. Ah, and the charisma. Err, I almost forgot about his non-partisan stance. Um, how about his ability to use English better than most native speakers? Well, you get the idea. Pretty hard to find another Linus if you ask me.
Re:Seen it before (Score:1)
Re:Seen it before (Score:4, Informative)
What? It's Minix, Minix, Minix. Xenix was always proprietary, and is going to die as such.
OTH, Minix was ergh... shared source? It died anyway...
Re:Seen it before (Score:1)
Re:Seen it before (Score:5, Insightful)
I suspect that part of the reason he's so bitter about Linux ("call it GNU/Linux!") is because Linux took off like a rocket while HURD wallows in obscurity, never likely to be more than an evolutionary dead end.
That's not to say HURD is bad, it's just that Linux is and was more popular - partly because Linus is such a strong leader, partly because the kernel is so easy to get into and partly because it actually works dammit.
Religion (Score:4, Funny)
"from the on-the-seventh-day-he-rested dept."
*Sigh* Well, it is a religion.
I miss the days when operating systems ran programs, and weren't political statements.
When was that? (Score:2)
OS/2 vs Windows?
Remember Unix vs VMS?
etc?
Re:When was that? (Score:1)
Re:Religion (Score:2, Insightful)
What? You were one of the MULTICS developers?
MP3? (Score:1)
must be a US citizen? (Score:1, Redundant)
Oh well. Sorry to those not from the US who might want to see this talk.
Re:must be a US citizen? (Score:1)
I've never been there, but it is a Federal airport and I'm sure there are military operations on campus. Seems like a reasonable request.
Re:must be a US citizen? Can you read? (Score:4, Insightful)
However, the Museum is currently housed on an old military facility (that's still owned by the military), so you need picture ID.
Non-citizens, like it says multiple times on the site, just need to bring their passport or Green Card. But everybody needs to make advance reservations so they can run you through whatever security database they use.
paul
Re:must be a US citizen? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:must be a US citizen? (Score:2, Funny)
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Just like when Elvis died.. (Score:1)
I was working as a Technician at a college in the Engineering department. One of the students starting raving on about this CD he had received containing loads of free (beer) software.. I remember him being a bit of a techy nerd. He had the beard and belly too.
I thought he was a fool "It'll never fly".
How I wish I had listened and got in early on. Then I too could be as righteous, patronising and superior as half the Linux community.
Re:Just like when Elvis died.. (Score:1)
Starting to feel a little old.
Re:free software... not so free conference (Score:1)
thats though...
Re:free software... not so free conference (Score:1)
>>Same requirements as for US citizens. Please
>>provide your country of citizenship and Green
>>Card number. (Bring your Green Card with you.)
Hmmm, guess I'll need a bigger suitcase... Do I get it back afterwards?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Well.... (Score:1)
CONSPIRACY THEORY!!! (Score:1, Interesting)
A lot of American Open Source Coders in ONE! swell swoop..
feel the shiver?..
Either way they will have your profile from now, what with all the information they are collecting.
tchuss!
They might as well... (Score:4, Funny)
-Kasreyn
Why is this on Slashdot? (Score:1, Insightful)
It is so very local that it is useless to post here.
I wouldn't have mind a transcript or so when it is over, but this is ridiculous!!!
Just For Fun (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Just For Fun (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Just For Fun (Score:1)
TCMHC Fellows (Score:2)
However, I did notice the Computer Museum's list of fellows [computerhistory.org], or more specifically, individuals of outstanding merit and accomplishment who have contributed to the development of computing.
Some familiar faces are there: Vint Cerf, Dennis Ritchie, Woz... I wonder when Linus will grace this list. Who else is missing?!? Tim Berners-Lee? Bill Gates? Bjourne?
Re:TCMHC Fellows (Score:1)
Bill Joy is still the man in my book for the original vi. But you could name names all day.
Why such a limited audience? (Score:3, Interesting)
The cool part is that to get TBL we didn't have to do much. A distance-learning program called the VisionQuest Series [vqfoundation.org] made all the arrangements and all we did was tune in with our browsers and satellite. A question of mine was even chosen and TBL answered it.
Why don't more people speak through this forum, or something like it? I wonder if those VisionQuest people approached Torvalds? I would love to hear Linus speak but I can't quite make it to California. When is distance-learning finally gonna be popular?!
It's all clear... (Score:5, Funny)
Bush: How can we get rid of all these commie bastards that the MPAA keeps bugging me about?
Ashcroft: If we grab their hero, and make them want to come here for him, we can get them all in one place.
Cheney pulls off Bush mask
Cheney: They would never fall for that, it's a military base!
Ashcroft: I got two words for ya, slash dot!
Linus: Um, Mr. Asscroft, that's one word.
Ashcroft: Guards, sieze him!
Cheney: IANAL, but BWahahahahahhaha!
Booooring (Score:1)
History strangely repeating itself? (Score:2)
"The Origin of Linux by means of penguin fanatics".
Comparing the work of Linus (& crew) to the work of Darwin is perhaps not fair, but their work had both a revolutionary effect and was regarded with contempt from many in power.
Not too many people these days questioning evolution right?
Hrm. (Score:3, Funny)
Not a word about the GNU project, RMS, the FSF, the GPL, etc. Just "appease the Linux fans by publically worshipping their poster boy!".
Heh, I bet RMS is taking an ANGRY sponge bath this morning. =P
-Kasreyn
Linus on PowerPoint (Score:2, Interesting)
What do you mean? Two years ago, Linus praised Microsoft for at last producing a useful program. Remember, back then there were no viable free option.
Linus is more pragmatic than NOT using PowerPoint. However, if there is a viable option today, I believe he may use it.
simulcast (Score:1)
I would guess this is cancelled... (Score:1)