Interview with Linus Torvalds
Found a very nice interview with Linus Torvalds here. One of the funny part I found was:
Q: What are some funny things that happened to you or, that you did, when making Linux?
Linus: “Really early on when I was making Linux, one of the things I was really doing was reading Internet news from the university computer. I was dialing up to the university, I usually got a busy signal, so I programed an auto dialer. It would dial and if it got a busy signal, it would wait a minute then redial. I wasn\’t using Linux full time yet but was still using it. By mistake, I auto dialed my hard disc and basically I overwrote the operating system with the dial strings. So I had to decide if I would reinstall the OS I was using or start using Linux full time. I said OK, that\’s a sign, I\’ll start using Linux full time.â€
This reminds me of a good way of starting using Linux after you have been using something different for a long time. If you want to succeed and be fast in it – just erase whatever you have, put Linux and start using it :) It might be a bit hard for the first week/month, but after you will catch yourself at using Linux without even thinking of it :)
The “dialing into hard disk” story was in the book “Just for fun” that I gave you sometime ago. :)
I hope next time I will be in Cyprus you will be able to teach me Linex. :-)
you haven’t gave me that book :)
I have only Rebel Code :)