maemo.org - Talk - Okay, done some reading, and have a noob question

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Originally Posted by Carefree (Post 387603)

I've never used linux before ...

Question 1: What's so great about it?

Depending on who you are and why you care, you might find unexpected answers reading the very enjoyable, light "autobiography" by the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.

Here's a little of what Publisher's Weekly has to say about Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary:

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The autobiography of a career computer programmer, even an unorthodox one, may sound less than enthralling, but this breezy account of the life of Linux inventor Torvalds not only lives up to its insouciant title, it provides an incisive look into the still-raging debate over open source code. In his own words (interspersed with co-writer Diamond's tongue-in-cheek accounts of his interviews with the absentminded Torvalds), the programmer relates how it all started in 1981 with his grandfather back in Finland, ...

Apart from my N800, I don't use Linux, but I have a sort of idealistic love for it that is largely the result of reading this book (and, a little, but definitely less, from reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar).