Linux Torvalds named most influential open source voice

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by dreemteem • 16 years ago

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barnaby• 16 years ago

Who's Linux Torvalds?

Oh you mean Linus, with an S

Interesting comparison with O'Reilly. Linus talks less but his words have more weight, Tim blogs, tweets, facebooks etc. frequently to get his word out.

chanux• 16 years ago

It's a common typo for Linux.

edit: Oh I mean, for Linus.

ledger123• 16 years ago

I came to know about Linux first and than Linus and always wondered why Linux was not called Linus.

pmjordan• 16 years ago

Unix-inspired systems have traditionally often had the letter X in their name, e.g.: UNIX itself (ex Unics), Irix, AIX, Minix, NeXTStep, Xenix, HP/UX, Linux, Mac OS X in no particular order.

Of course not all do, e.g. Free/Open/NetBSD (though they were originally based on "BSD UNIX"), Solaris/SunOS, etc.

Linux Torvalds named most influential open source voice

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