The Origins of Linux [Video]

May 19th, 2008 by Carlie Fairchild in

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Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.


This video was put together by the folks at the Computer History Museum who kindly gave us permission to share this video with Linux Journal readers. http://www.computerhistory.org
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Anonymous Adam's picture

Thanks

On May 21st, 2008 Anonymous Adam (not verified) says:

Thank you for providing this video. It was quite long, but definitely worth watching (listening to anyway).

snkr's picture

transcript anywhere?

On May 22nd, 2008 snkr (not verified) says:

does anyone have the transcript of this interview for those who don't have enough bandwidth to watch the video(like me)?

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