Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
In fact ... Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris. Linus Torvalds doesn't die, he simply returns zero. Linus Torvalds runs Linux on his wristwatch and toaster. There is no theory of probability, just a list of events that Linus Torvalds allows to occur. In the tradition of PZ Myers and Obama vs. Chuck Norris, we now have Linus...
Silicon Valley Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta’s...
Relevant Science (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company’s most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000 read more | digg story
The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The companys most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000 Get the low-down here: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40255/118/...
nerdd.net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The companys most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early [...]
TG Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company's most famous employee, Linux inventor Linux Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta's journey...
Internet Startups (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
desmondhaynes sends along a posting from the TechWatch blog detailing the sale of Transmeta (most recently discussed here). Linus moved ten time-zones west, from Finland to Santa Clara, CA, to join Transmeta in March 1997, before this community existed. Here is our discussion of the announcement of the Crusoe processor from 2000. Our earliest discussion [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
desmondhaynes sends along a posting from the TechWatch blog detailing the sale of Transmeta (most recently discussed here). Linus moved ten time-zones west, from Finland to Santa Clara, CA, to join Transmeta in March 1997, before this community existed. Here is our discussion of the announcement of the Crusoe processor from 2000. Our earliest discussion of Transmeta was the 13th Slashdot story....
Helsinki City (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Video: The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds Linux Today Mon, 11/10/2008 - 12:03 YouTube: "Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system ...
Favorite Items (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Linus Torvalds : Greatest Geek of all time : In my class 9th school interview, I was asked about my role model. I replied then, “ Bill Gates ”. After few years, at another interview the same question was asked to me, but this time my answer was…
David L's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
I highly recommend this recording of Linus' talk as part of the Computer History Museum series on YouTube. It's an amazing recollection of how the Linux OS came to be, and for any true computer science geek, there is not only heaps of hardcore technical stuff (like when Linus get's excited about The Protected Mode versus The Real Mode! ;D) but also just some really inspirational stories...
The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
So I'm pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 and use it as the license for all my projects that I care about... Source: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html
Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds, Others Honored In Silicon Valley InformationWeek, NY - 56 minutes ago Metcalfe left PARC and founded 3Com, a manufacturer of computer networking equipment , in 1979. The company shipped its first Ethernet card for the IBM PC in ...
OS News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
The Linux Foundation (LF) has posted a ten-minute video interview with kernel coordinator Linus Torvalds. Held during the Linux Foundation's recent Linux Kernel Summit, the interview reveals the Linux founder speaking out on issues ranging from kernel/userland interactions to why Linux has so many interfaces.
LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The Linux Foundation (LF) has posted a ten-minute video interview with kernel coordinator Linus Torvalds. Held during the Linux Foundation's recent Linux Kernel Summit, the interview reveals the Linux founder speaking out on issues ranging from kernel/userland interactions to why Linux has so many interfaces.
