Malcolm Cadman makes some magical things to make me read
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} >I just saw a new book about Linus Torvalds life tranlated in French, so
} >I think that it is a few months old in the USA. It was at FNAC, a French
} >store where everybody can impolitely read the books without the security
} >being impolite with you (this was the subject of one of their adverts, and
} >it is still true).
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} >There is an eleven page chapter about the QL, why Linus did buy one,
} >what he did develop with it, what he did like and dislike about it
} >eg. he was not happy at all with the OS in ROM so that it is impossible
} >to patch it.
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} That is a good point ... about the ROM based OS.
I like ROM based OS.
OS should be stable. and Rom based provided a virus-free quick install !
} >I did not buy it, the rest seems not interesting enough. And there is
} >his usual arrogance: "I am the best in the world, the code that I develop
} >is always perfect".
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} Umm ... I always thought he did :-) ... but then Linux is perfect too,
} isn't it ? ... :-)
May I say "kernel version 2.0.x, 2.2.k, 2.4.z... " who know when it will stop.
Perfection should be done right the very first time!
(I do not even speak of 2.1.139 !)
