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"Lin-us" or "Line-us"? What's the exact,
do you prefer the pronunciation?
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um.. When I speak Swedish it's "Lee-nus";
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when I speak Finnish it's "Leen-ous";
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when I speak English it's "Line-us".
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And I really don't care how people pronounce my name.
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But "Linux" is always "Linux".
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He developed a kernel, and got it working
faster than we got ours working,
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and got it to work very nicely and solidly.
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His kernel is called "Linux".
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The initial goal was my very personal goal
:28:36
to be able to run a similar environment on my computer
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that I had grown used to at, at the university computers.
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And I could not find anything that suited me for that.
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So having been doing computers for all my life basically.
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At that point I decided that I'll do my own.
:29:01
Most of the inspiration early on came from, from SunOS
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which was what um,
I was using at the university at the time.
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[ Which University? ]
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University of Helsinki in Finland.
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From 1991 to about 1993 was really
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I guess the infancy period of Linux.
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That was when it was still only alpha or beta quality;
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it was relatively unstable.
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Although, even then it was a good deal more stable
:29:36
than a lot of what are now called
"production" operating systems.
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Linus used the traditional
tried-and-true method of writing one program
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that does the job,
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and he got it to work.
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quickly in fact faster than
I would have thought was possible.
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The term for it is "monolithic",
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which means that basically
the OS itself is one entity, indivisible.