Being 39 years of age, Linus Torvalds was born on the 28th of December 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. Though the fact that he graduated the Helsinki University with a Master's degree in computer science may not seem very interesting, you should know that the University's decision to hold a UNIX course during his years there was one of the things that led to the creation of Linux.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Chris7mas
3 years 7 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago
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Starchild
3 years 7 weeks 6 days 3 hours ago
Historically inaccurate
Actually the article is factually quite inaccurate. Where is GNU? Where is Richard Stallman? Where are the FSF and the GPL?
That's of course what you get for calling the whole system just "Linux".
Linux is just a kernel. The operating system in question was started much earlier in the form of GNU. It was just completed when Linux (the kernel) was finally liberated (it was not free software at first).
We have many more people to thank for the success of the GNU+Linux phenomenon than just a guy who never even meant for his hobby kernel to be anything more than a fun toy to play with let alone decide to oraganise and advocate for developing a whole free OS.
trombonechamp
3 years 7 weeks 17 hours 55 min ago
Love this article
This is easily one of the funniest articles I've ever read! I almost posted a sarcastic comment on there, but there was no bugmenot account for the site, and I didn't want to register.
Seriously, though, this is so inaccurate that it's funny how little the author knows (or at least pretends to know) about the subject. And to think people wonder why not enough people appreciate GNU...
Maybe I'm one sided, though, simply because I can't stand the jerk portrayed in the article.