Gift of a desktop Part 2
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| Take Maddog for example. This man was a
| system administrator, like me. When he
| worked for Digital Equipment Corporation
| (DEC), a too-big-to-fail mega corporation,
| he told everyone that UNIX was dying and
| "Linux is inevitable!" They laughed at him
| but since he did a lot of favors for people
| he had enough gift-economy credits to
| convince folks to gift a computer to some
| college kid in Finland. Who was this boy
| genius who promised to replace the UNIX
| operating system this DEC computer ran with
| free software he helped write himself?
| Linus Tourvalds.
| Maddog could retired with the gift of that
| one desktop as the feather in his cap.
| Instead he has dedicated his career to
| spreading the word about free software
| since then. Indeed, Linux is International.
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2010/06/22/gift-of-a-desktop-part-2/
Linux â The father of open source
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| When someone says âopen sourceâ a lot of
| people think about programs with open
| source code or Linux. Linux was started
| back in the 90âs by Linus Torvalds. The
| projected expanded a lot in the years that
| would follow. It became peopleâs best
| choice for the minimal and light operating
| system that works on nearly every machine.
| Wonder why the supercomputers run Linux?
| The main reason is security. The other
| reason is itâs lightness. In my opinion
| Linux is the best option for the users at
| home and work. No Iâm not saying that
| Windows is bad, however Windows with good,
| really good security tweaking can be secure
| too.
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http://blog.zeusoft.net/2010/06/linux-the-father-of-open-source/
The Bizarre Cathedral - 74
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_74
Recent:
The customer is (almost) always right
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| We had produced a version of Unix called Ultrix
| for our PDP-11 line of computers, and several
| releases of this had already been shipped,
| proving itself to be a solid implementation of
| Unix.
|
| At the event we had a reception, with finger
| food, beer and wine and I was standing there,
| munching some chicken wings and drinking a beer
| when a customer walked up to me and said:
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| âI think your Ultrix system really stinks.â
|
| He actually used another word than âstinksâ,
| also beginning with an âsâ and ending with a
| âkâ, but this is a family-oriented blog and we
| don't want to put anything bad here.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/The-customer-is-almost-always-right
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