In debian-user Michael Beattie wrote: >I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's >first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus >Torvalds.
<MODE="Approximate quote from memory"> Do you yearn for the days when men were men, and wrote their own device drivers... </MODE> <MODE="Altavista simple query, third match"> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Benedict Torvalds) > Newsgroups: comp.os.minix > Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT > Organization: University of Helsinki > > Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote > their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying > to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you > finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all- > nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just > for you :-) It's about 33% into <URL:http://sslug.imm.dtu.dk/linux_history_1.html> </MODE> I never knew his second name was Benedict... -- #include <std_disclaim.h> Lorens Kockum Seriously considering putting a blatant company plug in my .sig. Just so I don't get tempted to put MS-related things in here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
