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Linus Torvalds on How Linux Went From One-Man Show To Group Effort

Linus Torvalds has told The Register how Linux went from a solo hobby project on a single 386 PC in Helsinki to a genuinely collaborative effort, and the path involved crowdsourced checks, an FTP mirror at MIT, and a licensing decision that opened the floodgates.

Torvalds released the first public snapshot, Linux 0.02, on October 5, 1991, on a Finnish FTP server -- about 10,000 lines of code that he had cross-compiled under Minix. He originally wanted to call it "Freax," but his friend Ari Lemmke, who set up the server, named the directory "Linux" instead. Early contributor Theodore Ts'o set up the first North American mirror on his VAXstation at MIT, since the sole 64 kbps link between Finland and the US made downloads painful. That mirror gave developers on this side of the Atlantic their first practical access to the kernel.

Another early developer, Dirk Hohndel, recalled that Torvalds initially threw away incoming patches and reimplemented them from scratch -- a habit he eventually dropped because it did not scale. When Torvalds could not afford to upgrade his underpowered 386, developer H. Peter Anvin collected checks from contributors through his university mailbox and wired the funds to Finland, covering the international banking fees himself. Torvalds got a 486DX/2. In 1992, he moved the kernel to the GPL, and the first full distributions appeared in 1992-1993, turning Linux from a kernel into installable systems.

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Met het nieuwe stembiljet gaat het tellen twee keer zo snel, maar je stemt wel ‘op een nummertje’

Met het nieuwe stembiljet gaat het tellen vlotter, maar er zijn ook nadelen. Zo is het aantal ongeldige stemmen iets hoger. „Elke stem die niet meetelt is er één te veel. Maar de verkiezingen moeten ook uitvoerbaar zijn”, aldus bijzonder hoogleraar electorale politiek Henk van der Kolk.

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Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal

Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government

Datacenter power consumption has surged amid the AI boom, forcing builders to get creative in order to prevent their capex-heavy bit barns from running out of steam. But at least in some parts of the world, the answer to abundant clean energy may be hiding just a few thousand feet below the surface of the earth.…

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that...

The bot couldn't keep its prying eyes away. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been summarizing emails labeled “confidential” even when data loss prevention policies were configured to prevent it.…

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Zuckerberg grilled in landmark social media trial over teen mental health

Meta chief says it has improved identifying underage users but adds ‘I always wish we could have gotten there sooner’

The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified at a landmark trial of social media companies on Wednesday. Plaintiffs’ lawyers grilled Zuckerberg about internal complaints that not enough was being done to verify whether children under 13 were using the platform.

Zuckerberg claimed Meta had improved in identifying underage users but also said: “I always wish that we could have gotten there sooner.”

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Baby-aapje Punch nu ook verstoten door knuffel: ‘Misschien ligt het aan hem’

​De beelden veroverden harten over de hele wereld: baby-aapje Punch en zijn oranje knuffel. Het jonge makaakje werd bij zijn geboorte in een dierentuin in Tokio verstoten door zijn moeder en kreeg van zijn verzorgers de pluchen orang-oetan cadeau. Inmiddels heeft die knuffel Punch echter ook in de steek gelaten.

"Ja, dat zet je wel aan het denken", zegt verzorger Shinji Maeda. "Verstoten worden door je moeder kan gebeuren, dat is de natuur. Maar als een pluchen aap óók niks met je te maken wil hebben, dan roept dat wel vragen op. Misschien ligt het ook wel een beetje aan Punch zelf."

"Eerlijk gezegd", vervolgt Maeda, "ik heb hem zes maanden lang plichtsgetrouw opgevoed, maar ik mocht hem zelf ook niet. Ik snap dat knuffelbeest wel. Eigenlijk zijn we hem een excuus verschuldigd."

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