25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

Your Weekly Newsletter [view in browser »]( [Linus Torvalds]( 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds Robert Young - April 2, 2019 Linux Journal's very first issue featured an interview between LJ's first Publisher, Robert Young (who went on to co-found Red Hat among other things), and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel). After 25 years, we thought it'd be interesting to get the two of them together again. You can read that first interview from 1994 [here](. Interview: Linus Torvalds and Robert Young Robert Young: It is a great pleasure to have an excuse to reach out to you. How are you and your family? Your kids must be through college by now. Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing well. Our eldest, Zoe, who was 11 when Marc and I started Red Hat, is expecting her second child—meaning I'm a grandparent. Linus Torvalds: None of my kids are actually done with college yet, although Patricia (oldest) will graduate this May. And Celeste (youngest) is in her senior year of high school, so we'll be empty-nesters in about six months. All three are doing fine, and I suspect/hope it will be a few years until the grandparent thing happens. Bob: When I first interviewed you back in 1994, did you think that you'd be still maintaining this thing in 2019? Linus: I think that by 1994 I had already become surprised that my latest project hadn't just been another "do something interesting until it does everything I needed, and then find something else to do" project. Sure, it was fairly early in the development, but it had already been something that I had spent a few years on by then, and had already become something with its own life. [read article]( [Wget]( Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget Dashamir Hoxha - September 5, 2008 The most popular article of all time from LinuxJournal.com. [READ ARTICLE]( [DIY]( Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source, Part II Petros Koutoupis - March 28, 2019 There's an old saying, "anything worth doing, is worth automating"—or something like that. [read article]( [Thank You]( A Big Thanks to Our Subscribers Anonymous - April 5, 2019 We asked Linux Journal subscribers to write in and tell us about themselves, so we could feature them in our 25th Anniversary Issue as a way to thank them for their loyalty through the years. [Read Article]( Anniversary Special: Subscribe Now for $19.94 Offer Valid thru April 14, 2019. [Subscribe Now »]( [Renew Now »]( in case you missed [Clojure Logo] Creating Linux Command-Line Tools in Clojure Mihalis Tsoukalos - March 29, 2019 Learn how the leiningen utility can help you manage your Clojure projects. [Read article »]( [Terminal] Fun with Mail Merge and Cool Bash Arrays Dave Taylor - March 25, 2019 Creating a sed-based file substitution tool. [Read article »]( upcoming events [Drupalcon Seattle]( April 08, 2019 - April 12, 2019 Seattle, WA USA [LinuxFest Northwest]( April 26, 2019 - April 28, 2019 Bellingham, WA USA [PENGUICON 2019]( May 3, 2019 - May 5, 2019 SOUTHFIELD, MI USA [Userland]( [Pulseway]( You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive newsletters from Linux Journal. You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list. Copyright © 2019 Linux Journal LLC, All rights reserved. Mailing address: 9597 Jones Rd, #331 Houston, TX 77065