[wilhelmtux-discussion] Fw "In the beginning"

[Claude Almansi]

Hi Tuxers

What follows was quoted in an e-mail by Dale Chadwick to the "Information
Society: Voices from the South"  (see
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS/index.cfm ) mailing list

;-)

Claude

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In the Beginning

Message-ID:
1991Aug25.205708.9541 at klaava.helsinki.fi
From: torvalds at klaava.helsinki.fi (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
To: Newsgroups: comp.os.inix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system

Hello everybody out there using minix-I'm doing a (free) operating
system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386
(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to
get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix,
as my OS resembles it somewhat

Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus












 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: Claude Almansi [mailto:claude.almansi at bluewin.ch]
 >Sent: 22 October 2003 18:34
 >To: Information Society: Voices from the South
 >Subject: [is] Re: What a useless forum is this? - What about a "WSIS
 >events that suck" award?
 >
 >
 >Current topic: Issue of Access and Barriers:
 >Cher Benoît,
 >
 >I share your doubts about the efficiency of the December Summit. Start for
 >You (www.startforyou.com ) are currently preparing a huge database that
 >should make all projects and mailing lists concerning IS available in 5
 >languages by mid November, www.wsis-online.net . That's where the
 >WSIS sites
 >should have started, not waiting until Spring 2003 to realise
 >that their web
 >appearance was a mess. If wsis-online keeps its promiss, even if
 >not in all
 >5 languages, it will be great. Otherwise it will just join the
 >host of other
 >more or less incomplete compilations of Civil Society initiatives.
 >
 >I'm not really superstitious, yet I find that their forecasts for Dec 2004
 >are apt to bring down the wrath of any godhead worth his/her salt:
 >
 >Forecasts for the end of 2004
 >----------------------------------
 > Claude Almansi
 >claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
 >www.adisi.ch
 >Registered members : 5 millions
 >Pages viewed : 30 millions
 >Number of indexed projects : 3'000
 >Number of affiliated sites : 1'500
 >E-mail traffic : 50 millions
 >
 > (from their sponsor-seeking page:
 >http://www.wsis-online.org/devenez-sponsor )
 >
 >I just had an idea: there's going to be a WSIS award
(www.wsis-award.org ) -
what about a "WSIS events that suck" award, on the model of Vincent
Flander's http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ ? My nominee:
www.helloworldproject.com , with www.wsis-award.org itself as a runner-up.

Cheers

Claude

Claude Almansi
claude.almansi at bluewin.ch
www.adisi.ch

PS I see from your address that you probably live in Belgium: I have
marvelous memories of holidays near Bouillon when I was a kid  - I'm
half-Belgian, from the "flamand-traître" Ghent community.


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