THE VIDEO SHELF · linux history
The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds tells the story of Linux in a 2001 talk at the Computer History Museum, from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon of open source. It covers the project's origins, its growth, and his views on licensing and kernel design.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as the long first-person account of Linux history, including Linus on the GPL's role and on microkernels.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Computer History Museum
- Topic
- linux history
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2008–2014
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Pertaining to the editor wars. There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can—after the 40 minute mark is especially worth it: [VIDEO] 55 minutes in someone asks him, "What editor and mail reader do …
jackchristopher on Hacker News · 2009-11
In Linus Torvalds' Micro-emacs[LINK] Even better, a video of Linus Torvalds speaking on the history of Linux at the Computer Museum in 2001: [VIDEO]
mechanical_fish on Hacker News · 2008-06
In Diary of a Failed Startup
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