Exactly. From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT Messa

Exactly. From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying </quote> http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/misc/linux-history.html http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/misc/linux-history.html 2001 is a dead-tree version's reference: Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001). Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Collins. </quote> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds By the way, Talk is cheap. Show me the code. </quote> http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 This quote is not from 2006 but at least 2000.