@daweaver@mas.to avatar daweaver , to random

Shawn Mullins, forgot about him.

The Stereophonics, music to sleep through.

Blur, music to wake me up.

Boyzone, they're no Billy Ocean.

We're not seeing the bit where Gail Porter announced the BBC's entry to Eurovision was "Say it again", which finished about eleventy-billionth in the grand contest.

Anyway, evening all. And happy new year. Good to be back with the faithful.

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"Wait!" - Dr. Robert and Kym Mazelle

There's something very Schroeder and Lucy about this one.

[not Linus, thwacks head]

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Linus Torvalds on ZDTV's giving info about Linux and answering Q&A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIbP943AAI

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@nixCraft To all those who hate dual booting if helpful, note how dreams of folks having 3, 4 operating systems and would be one of them.

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demiguru , to Linux in Linux is about to lose a feature [Bcachefs (ofc)]– over a personality clash
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kurushimi cm0002 From what I understand, Kent Overstreet has attempted to circumvent the release cycle by adding to an , which was the final straw. (Torvalds) has warned him repeatedly, but it wasn’t just him. Based on a comment I read from one of the , his repeated made it considerably more for them to complete their . So while you might be right, it’s not that simple.

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Git is named after the British slang for “unpleasant person”—a nod to Linus Torvalds’ sharp sense of humor.

I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'. That text is followed by a photo of Linus Torvalds.
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I mean he didn't initially want to name Linux after himself. I think he wanted to call it freax or something. It was just an FTP host who changed the name for him,because he thought Freax was dumb.
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-got-its-name/#linus-torvalds-and-freax