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Swansea/Linux trivium
Has anyone ever noticed that, during the Linux boot process, there used to be a kernel message "Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039"? It had to do with the TCP/IP networking stack, and was removed from the source code in 2003:http://twenty.sucs.org/TheSociety/AboutThere are links on the page cited above to material about Linux hero Alan Cox, who still lives in Swansea. He is also the Technical Director of CymruNet http://wri.cymru.net/ .
Ceri,4.8% is respectable. I think Ubuntu has encouraged many people to use Linux on the desktop who otherwise would have gone with XP. BTW, am I the only one who thinks that latter trade name looks a lot like the "Chi Rho" on the paten at the front of a Church?
gaabi,Alan's wife, Telsa Gwynne is, among other things, a prolific contributor to Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/TelsaShe is also responsible for getting Alan to learn Welsh. Now his Internet diary is written entirely in Welsh, and people are constantly asking Telsa to "Make him stop!". As an accomodation, Paul Sladen has translated Alan's diary into English. The inter-linear version is here:http://www.paul.sladen.org/alans-diary/
Thanks for that Mark. Just thought you might like to know that Linux achieves a healthy 4.80% in our operating system stats ( see below ).
Wow, I didn't know that! Thanks for posting that, going to check out your links.