August 2006

Sarah posted this poll on the myspace bulletin board; here's my responses.

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Heh. Linus Torvalds had no idea what he was getting into 15 years ago...

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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds - view profile
Date: Sun, Aug 25 1991 3:57 pm
Email: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
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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 (torva...@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 :-(.

I saw this on some random blog earlier, and while I don't usually go for the Internet memes, this one looked like a bit of fun.

[A is for age]
29, but only for another 92 days

[B is for booze of choice]
When I have a choice, it's Bushmill's Irish Whiskey. When I don't have a choice, it's anything but tequila.

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