Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

The Origins of Linux – Linus Torvalds

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

[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.

Tags: Computer, History, Linus, Linux, Operating, Systems, Torvalds
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A Free Operating System Thats Under 50MB In Size?!?! – DSL

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Have a problem? Ask in the forum:

http://www.mob3.co.uk/forum

or the live chat:

http://www.mob3.co.uk/chat

Take 2 :-P 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/

Tags: CD, damn, distribution, DSL, embedded, Linux, live, mini, small, tiny, very
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