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In Greek mythology, Linus (Ancient Greek: Λῖνος Linos "flax") may refer to the following personages: Male Linus, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon, either by the naiad Cyllene, Nonacris, or Pausanias. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into Zeus' meal, whereupon the enraged god threw the meal over the table. Linus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt cast by Zeus. Apollodorus, Linus, the great musician son of Apollo. Linus, son of Apollo and Psamathe. Linus, a soldier in the army of the Seven against Thebes. He was killed by Hypseus at Thebes. Female

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“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”
— This was the launch of Linux.
“My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.”
— As quoted in: Young, Robert; Goldman Rohm, Wendy (1999), Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business – and Took Microsoft by Surprise, p. 111
“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”
— (About the C programming language, vs. C++)
“Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.”
— Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference, video showing this phrase in one of Torvalds papers (time code: 48.44)
“Guess what? Wheels have been round for a really long time, and anybody who "reinvents" the new wheel is generally considered a crackpot. It turns out that "round" is simply a good form for a wheel to have. It may be boring, but it just tends to roll better than a square, and "hipness" has nothing what-so-ever to do with it.”
— Source: on Desktop_architects: Drivers – below the OS, Fri Aug 3 18:12:57 PDT 2007.
“So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.”
— -- Wed, 23 Jan 2008 -- http://web.archive.org/20080213164251/kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/1/23/595619

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Notable quotes

“I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”
— This was the launch of Linux.
“My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.”
— As quoted in: Young, Robert; Goldman Rohm, Wendy (1999), Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business – and Took Microsoft by Surprise, p. 111
“It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style”
— (About the C programming language, vs. C++)
“Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.”
— Attributed to Torvalds at 1996 FSF conference, video showing this phrase in one of Torvalds papers (time code: 48.44)
“Guess what? Wheels have been round for a really long time, and anybody who "reinvents" the new wheel is generally considered a crackpot. It turns out that "round" is simply a good form for a wheel to have. It may be boring, but it just tends to roll better than a square, and "hipness" has nothing what-so-ever to do with it.”
— Source: on Desktop_architects: Drivers – below the OS, Fri Aug 3 18:12:57 PDT 2007.
“So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.”
— -- Wed, 23 Jan 2008 -- http://web.archive.org/20080213164251/kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/1/23/595619

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