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Linux went from being a cool personal hack in a bedroom to software that would eventually change world just over 21 years ago when Linus ...

Most people in the free software world know about the famous “LINUX is obsolete” thread that began on the comp.os.minix newsgroups in Januar...

Most people in the free software world know that before he wrote Linux, Linus was using the Minix operating system. To run it, he had to acq...

In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result o...

A number of sites have noted this interesting study of a particular kind of con-trick, known as "The pigeon drop". What really c...

For younger readers of this blog, the name Andy Tanenbaum may not mean much. But for oldies such as myself, it is highly redolent of those...

It was 15 years ago today that Linus made his first Usenet posting , to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. This is how it began: Hello everybody...