Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:16 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall said: All I know is that today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day, so imagine the conversation in some places: Arrggg, Matey, I really don't want any more of that Microsoft software, even if I don't have to pay for it. md -- Also, last Thursday was September 13, the 8th anniversary of the day the moon was blown out of Earth's orbit by a magnetic chain reaction in a lunar-based nuclear waste dump... -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
On 9/20/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, last Thursday was September 13, the 8th anniversary of the day the moon was blown out of Earth's orbit by a magnetic chain reaction in a lunar-based nuclear waste dump... So that's what that noise was... -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
On Sep 20, 2007, at 07:29, Ben Scott wrote: So that's what that noise was... I know you're just tempting me to say, but there's no sound in space, so I guess I missed the joke. Actually the real joke is that we had working technology to get rid of nuclear waste and get us off foreign oil, but Clinton defunded the project three weeks into his first term and it's sat idle since. Sign, global warming then... -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
On 09/18/2007 10:17 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :) Thanks for that perspective. Now I feel really old. Gads. -Mark /get off my floppy disks! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
On 9/19/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/18/2007 10:17 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :) Thanks for that perspective. Now I feel really old. Gads. -Mark If you want to feel young (or old, depending on which side of 1947 you are) - yesterday, 18 September 2007, was the 60th birthday of the Air Force. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
All I know is that today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day, so imagine the conversation in some places: Arrggg, Matey, I really don't want any more of that Microsoft software, even if I don't have to pay for it. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was on this date in 1991 that Linus Torvalds had the first tar ball (V0.01 of the kernel) posted to an ftp site. I don't know which is worse, the fact that I didn't know that Sept. 17th was the birtday of Linux, or the fact that it's my anniversary as well, and neither me *nor* my wife remembered :) Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :) -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Happy Birthday, Linux!
It was on this date in 1991 that Linus Torvalds had the first tar ball (V0.01 of the kernel) posted to an ftp site. Originally the name of the kernel project was to be Freax, but Linus' friend who did the posting decided to over-rule Linus and renamed it Linux. Honest I didn't want to ever release it under the name Linux because it was too egotistical. What was the name I reserved for any eventual release? Freax. (Get it? Freaks with the requisite X.) In fact, some of the early make files --the files that describe how to compile the sources-- included the word Freax for about half a year. But it really didn't matter. At that point I didn't need a name for it because I wasn't releasing it to anybody. And Ari Lemke, who insured that it made its way to the ftp site, hated the name Freax. He preferred the other working name I admit that I didn't put up much of a fight. But it was his doing. So I can honestly say I wasn't egotistical, or half-honestly say I wasn't egotistical. But I thought okay, that's a good name, and I can always blame somebody else for it, which I'm doing now. -- Linus Torvalds p84 and p88 Just for fun So two days after Software Freedom Day we have the anniversary of the birth of Linux. maddog -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Happy Birthday, Linux!
Hi, While there are several concepts of when Linux was born, certainly one of them is September 17, 1991 when the first tarball of code was posted on the net: linux-0.01.tar.gz before this, the name of the system was supposed to be Freax For those newer to Linux and Free and Open Source Software, there is a brief history of those early moments written by Linus himself at this URL: http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php Warmest regards, md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux(R) International email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!
Hi, [...] For those newer to Linux and Free and Open Source Software, there is a brief history of those early moments written by Linus himself at this URL: http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php Thanks, Maddog! Good reading -- I don't think I'd seen that compilation before; informative. For some other good history (on Linux and other newsgroup stuff), check out Google's newsgroup timeline: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html -Ken ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
