[ale] Happy Birthday Tux!

[Jim Kinney]

I did not see it when it happened. I was only introduced to Linux in 1992.

We sure have come a long way!

Heh, heh. Both of my kids sneer at the windows machines at school. Thanks to
that steaming pile of unstable dreck called Windows NT 3.51, I converted
fully to Linux in 1997. While I have had work-supplied dual-boot system,
often with no employer knowledge of my OS installation antics, I have only
used the windows side to do mandatory monthly windows updates and password
changes.

Submitted from my single booting Fedora 15 x86_64 Toshiba laptop with
external happy hacker 2 lite keyboard running kernel 2.6.40.3 on a dual core
Athalon X2 down-clocked to 1.050 GHz so I won't make popcorn at the fan
outlet.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>wrote:

> **
> Submitted from my single booting Ubuntu 10.10 hacked-HP xw4600 running the
> "2.6.35-30-generic-pae" Linux Kernel.
>
> Anyone remember this message?
>
>
> **********************************************************************************************
> From:torvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
> Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
> Summary: small poll for my new operating system
> Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541 at klaava.Helsinki.FI
> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
> Organization: University of Helsinki.
>
> 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-sytem
> due to practical reasons)among other things.
>
> I've currently ported bash (1.08) an 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 want. Any suggestions are welcome,
> but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
>
> Linus Torvalds torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi
>
> **********************************************************************************************
>
> HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUX!
>
> Thanks Linus and many happy returns!!
>
> Rich in Lilburn
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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