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drybjed·

Is it just a hobby, and won't be big and professional like gnu?

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Only runs on 80386 since that’s all I have.

quick, let's find the author's shirtless beer drinking pictures before they get deleted

Plz explain context

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/15ifjt/young_linus_s...

Not just a hobbyist,* an enthusiast[1[2] previously[3[4].

[1] https://x.com/seiyanuta [2] https://seiya.me/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631873 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986229

* I do get the reference and releaize I'm changing the class of the referent. Anyway FTL (or the next one...) FTW, godspeed.

I dont think the kids are gonna get the reference.

I think they will. It’s a pretty famous quote, even among people who were not old enough to see it first-hand at the time when Linus made that Usenet post.

I read about it some 20 years ago in an (auto?) biography about Linus, saunas, that thing where he had to reverse engineer posix specs. And minix was either evil or an academic purist

Edit: there was so much drama now I remember

I'm old enough but didn't get it. Though I was into Unix at the time, I never looked at Linux till 2004.

I did recognize it when it was brought up here but not before.

thanks to your comment we all understood that you got it though, which is the point!

also, thanks to your comment, unaware folks will probably figure it out, which is the subtler point!

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