Twenty-six years ago today, someone from Finland posted the following message to comp.os.minix:
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
Here's wishing him and his creation another twenty-six happy years of world domination.
(Score: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:24PM (10 children)
Was this necessary?
Editors?????
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:36PM (3 children)
But he is from Finland!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 25 2017, @05:44PM (1 child)
Not only is he from Finland, but he is equipped with an asshole.
The world needs more assholes!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @06:21PM
He is an embodiment of recursion.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday August 25 2017, @06:39PM
> But he is from Finland!
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/penpals/stats.php3?Pays=FIN [studentsoftheworld.info]
I'm glad to be running Linux, rather than Mikkox.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @05:51PM
Yes, because he's still an asshole. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @07:22PM (1 child)
Yip, one of them Euro-Commies. Pink and unpatriotic. Hail Trumppence!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:01AM
I doubt Linus is a pinko collectivist. What I don't doubt is that he believes that Blacks and Jews are subhuman. You know it from the way he talks, even if he doesn't say it directly. I bet he's so angry because the subhuman hordes are invading his homeland and turning it into a third-world shithole.
Anyway, my own experience with Linux was extremely mediocre. I stopped using it when I got into big-boy school (except for the OS class which was terminal-heavy, and after that I stopped altogether). It had a lot of potential to be useful, but again collapsed backward into a super-autistic mess suitable only for dick-kneading booger-eaters. It is near-impossible to eke even basic functionality out of it, available applications have super-autistic UIs and are third-rate, and even my favorite feature -- the apt package management system -- becomes horribly broken if you use an older version of Linux.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Friday August 25 2017, @07:33PM (1 child)
It seems they got rid of it, but I laughed. In this case it's not so much an opinion of the submitter, but more of a universally accepted and oft lamented fact. Linus can be a bit of an asshole. I've never been in the forums, spoken with the man, or dealt with him in any way, but I know that he is widely reported to be an asshole.
I took it as more of a humorous jab at the man, but maybe it didn't need to happen on his birthday either.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 25 2017, @07:37PM
How dare they do this on Linux Torvalds's birthday.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 25 2017, @10:23PM
You act like I insulted the guy or something. Linus is an asshole. Linus needs to be an asshole. Could you imagine the flaming piece of garbage Linux would be today if he were sweet and mild-mannered towards shitty coding? Odin bless his assholish little heart.
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