《Just for Fun：The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary》英文版，
林纳斯·托瓦兹(Linus Torvalds)


作者: Linus Torvalds / David Diamond / 林纳斯·托瓦兹 / 戴维·戴蒙德
出版社: HarperBusiness
副标题: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
出版年: 2002-6-4
页数: 288
定价: USD 14.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780066620732


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This is the story of Linus Torvalds, the maverick Finnish computer genius who invented the powerful LINUX operating system. As well as being free, LINUX is more powerful and stable than anything that Microsoft can offer, thus making Torvalds Bill Gates' number one enemy. Today, LINUX is exploding on to the market, and its creator is household. Linus Torvalds is already a folk hero within the technolgy world, often mobbed at trade shows and forever asked to give interviews by the media. But Torvalds is a most unlikely celebrity: a family man, he lives in a cramped house in Santa Clara with his wife, Tove, a Finnish karate champion, and their two daughters. He claims to this day that he invented LINUX "just for fun". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



本书讲述了林纳斯·托瓦兹 (Linus Torvalds) 的故事。这位特立独行的芬兰计算机天才发明了强大的 LINUX 操作系统。LINUX 不仅免费，而且比微软的任何产品都更强大、更稳定，因此托瓦兹成为了比尔·盖茨 (Bill Gates) 的头号敌人。如今，LINUX 正以爆炸式增长的速度涌入市场，其创始人家喻户晓。林纳斯·托瓦兹 (Linus Torvalds) 已是科技界的民间英雄，经常在展会上受到热烈追捧，并经常被媒体邀请接受采访。然而，托瓦兹却是一位出人意料的名人：他是一位居家男人，与妻子托芙（芬兰空手道冠军）和两个女儿住在圣克拉拉一栋狭小的房子里。他至今仍声称，自己发明 LINUX 只是为了“好玩”。



Introduction: Post-its from a Revolution......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Preface: The Meaning of Life I (Sex, War, Linux)......Page 13
Birth of a Nerd......Page 19
I.......Page 20
II.......Page 23
III.......Page 26
IV.......Page 30
V.......Page 41
VI.......Page 44
VII.......Page 48
Birth of an Operating System......Page 53
I.......Page 54
II.......Page 65
III.......Page 68
IV.......Page 75
V. The Beauty of Programming......Page 88
VI.......Page 92
VII.......Page 96
VIII.......Page 100
IX.......Page 105
X. Minix vs Linux......Page 113
XI.......Page 128
XII.......Page 135
King of the Ball......Page 139
I.......Page 140
II.......Page 146
III.......Page 154
IV.......Page 162
V.......Page 168
VI.......Page 176
VII.......Page 185
VIII.......Page 192
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"I was a nerd. Geek. From fairly early on. I didn't duct-tape my glasses together, but I might as well have, because I had all the other traits. Good at math, good at physics, and with no social graces whatsoever. And this was before being a nerd was considered to be a good thing."
In this witty and engrossing narrative, Linus Torvalds, the brilliant mastermind behind the latest Internet revolution, in collaboration with writer David Diamond, chronicles his transformation from a pale, skinny Helsinki college kid to an international folk hero. What began as a childhood hobby soon became the astonishing phenomenon known as the LINUX operating system.
LINUX was created because Linus was curious to see if he could improve upon the operating systems already out there, such as UNIX. How could he create a system that could run all of his favorite software with fewer crashes and faster productivity? Linus posted his early versions of LINUX on the Internet and called upon the [...]



“我是个书呆子，极客。从很早以前开始。我没用胶带把眼镜粘起来，但我也可能用胶带粘起来，因为我具备其他所有特质。擅长数学，擅长物理，而且毫无社交礼仪。而这还是在书呆子还被认为是好事之前。”
在这部诙谐而引人入胜的叙事中，最新互联网革命的幕后策划者 Linus Torvalds 与作家 David Diamond 合作，记录了他从一个面色苍白、骨瘦如柴的赫尔辛基大学生成长为国际民间英雄的历程。这项最初源于童年爱好的发明，很快便发展成为令人瞩目的 Linux 操作系统。
Linux 的诞生源于 Linus 的好奇心，他想知道自己能否改进现有的操作系统，例如 UNIX。他该如何创建一个能够运行他所有喜爱软件的系统，同时减少崩溃并提高生产力？Linus 将他早期版本的 Linux 发布到互联网上，并呼吁 [...]