Results tagged “linus torvalds”

Switching: Moving from openSUSE to Ubuntu

In December 2005 after looking around for a Linux distribution, SUSE 10.0 seemed a good choice. SUSE, which was later renamed openSUSE, remains a good Linux distribution. At that time there were a few mentions of a newer distribution called... Read More >>

Linu(x/s) Anecdotes

Back in 1998, Lars Wirzenius gave a talk at Linux Expo. He recounts the early days of Linux and of its progenitor Linus Torvalds. An amusing read certainly. Wirzenius was Torvalds' officemate at the University of Helsinki so he would... Read More >>

Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux

Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his... Read More >>
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