Every week veteran KDE contributor Kevin Ottens posts a bunch of thought-provoking links on his blog, and last week's post contained one that I found particularly enlightening: 40 years of programming It's a collection of wisdom written from someone named Lars Wirzenius who started his software development career decades ago and has seen it all.…
My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux
is now a global success, but its beginnings were rather more humble.
These are my memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation, and the
start of its path to where it is today.
My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started. Linux
is now a global success, but its beginnings were rather more humble.
These are my memories of the earliest days of Linux, its creation, and the
start of its path to where it is today.
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16 May 2021 6:00am, by David Cassel
This month Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked at length about topics near and dear to his heart, in a new two-partemail interview with Jeremy Andrews, the founding partner and CEO of Tag1, a global technology consulting firm as well as the second all-time leading contributor to Drupal. For part of a new series of interviews with Open Source leaders, Andrews had wanted to catch up with Torvalds before the 30th anniversary of Linux this August.
Torvalds has spent those 30 years since the age of 21 steadfastly presiding over the community that’s maintaining a worldwide phenomenon, the open source operating system that “literally grew kind of haphazardly from me initially just trying to learn the in-and-outs of my new PC hardware,” he wrote.