See, You Not Only Have To Be A Good Coder To Create A System Like Linux, You Have To Be A Sneaky Bastard Too.

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• Brief History Of Linux (#19) Boy meets operating system The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ.
  of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix & C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting Minix to work properly on a Sun box....
• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• Elite Nerds Create Linux Distro From Hell HELL, MICHIGAN -- A group of long-time Linux zealots and newbie haters have thrown together a new Linux distro called Hellix that is so user-hostile
  o anti-newbie, so cryptic, and so old-fashioned that it actually makes MS-DOS look like a real operating system....
• Microsoft Fights Linux -- By Contributing Kernel Patches If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
  .. and then destory 'em. That seems to be the new Microsoft strategy for dealing with Linux....
• Brief History Of Linux (#24) Linus Torvalds quotes from his interview in "LinuxNews" (October 1992)
  "I doubt Linux will be here to stay, and maybe Hurd is the wave of the future (and maybe not)....
• What Did Santa Claus Bring You In 1999? (#1) LINUS TORVALDS
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• Brief History Of Linux (#23) Linus Torvalds certainly wasn't the only person to create their own operating system from scratch.
  Other people working from their leaky basements did create their own systems and now they are sick that they didn't become an Alpha Geek like Torvalds or a Beta Geek like Alan Cox....
• Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Linus Torvalds SILLYCON VALLEY -- Nearly 130 former system administrators have filed suit against Linus Torvalds in which they claim Linux cost them their jobs.
  Recently several companies migrated from Windows to Linux, increasing their productivity but decreasing the need for a large staff of tech workers, prompting a wave of layoffs....
• If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
  -- Linus Torvald...