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Monday, March 22, 2004

BSDsnob@Brainshare 2004 Travelogue:
So Chris Stone announces he wants to bring out Jack Messman and, of course, Linus to talk about Linux.

They hang out in directors chairs on stage and Jack and Chris start asking Linus various questions.

Chris: What else do you want in your life?
Linus: I'm really very happy. It's certainly nice to be flown around on corporate jets to talk to people.

Jack: What do you wish you had done differently?
Linus: I don't think I did anything wrong yet. But when I get a question like that most people ask "What do you think your best decision about linux was?"

Linus continues: My best decision was to not make linux proprietary. Keeping it free has let it really develop well.

Jack: (joking a little) But if you had made it proprietary you would have your own corporate jet. (hah hah)

Linus: (blank stare at jack)

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

TCC is going to be a Red Hat Academy

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Sysadminco is a neat site.

Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Bittorrent tracker for Fedora Linux

Monday, March 01, 2004

The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System*
This paper presents a brief history of the early development of the Unix operating system. It concentrates on the evolution of the file system, the process-control mechanism, and the idea of pipelined commands. Some attention is paid to social conditions during the development of the system.