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"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you wont end up like the Hurd people."
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Linus Torvalds"It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesnt go out of style"
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you wont end up like the Hurd people."
"I allege that SCO is full of it."
"Im doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, wont be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
"Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?"
"No. Thats it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. Ive got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical."
"Im an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."