Is... is...
Is that face moving? I swear it is...
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.9. “I'm pretty sure this is the biggest release we've ever had, at least in number of commits,” Torvalds writes on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. “If you look at the number of lines changed, we've had bigger releases in the past, but they have tended to be due to specific …
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They sold me a dream of computing
They sold me a silent build
And they told me a shell prompt
'Till I believed in the Kernelite
And I believed in Linus Torvalds
And I looked to the screen with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn on Christmas morn
And I saw him running Linux on his Raspberry Pi's
Linus: A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms... Enthusiasms...What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?...Excellent kernel code. (He holds up a the hardcover edition of "Linux Kernel Development") A man, a man sits alone at a terminal. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he sits alone. But in the field, what? PART OF A TEAM.
All: Teamwork.
Linus: Codes, debugs, documents, fixes, part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, and so on. (laughter) If his team don't field, what is he? You follow me? No one. A rainy day, the repos are full of users. What does he have to say? 'I'm goin' out there for myself. But, I get nowhere unless the team wins.'
(Bats an offending but unsuspecting developer to death with the directory-sized book)