[Recorded Sept 19, 2001]
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, 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.
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Take 2 
Here I talk about a Linux Distribution called Damn Small Linux which is under 50MB for the entire OS and all the apps included. You can run this in a Virtual Machine or download an “embedded” version (thanks to mag2ster for the heads up) .
VirtualBox:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
DSL iso & embedded:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/
