just for fun the story of an accidental revolutionary

Brimming with Torvalds's candid observations and opinions, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to know where high tech and business are going in the future. Just for Fun chronicles Torvalds's amazing life-from his eccentric childhood in Finland, to his gangly, geeky teenage years when his greatest joy was writing programs on his grandfather's VIC-20 computer, to his rise to world-wide fame with Linux. Over 12 million machines, including many of the servers that power the World Wide Web, now run on Linux, as do the top-of-the-line offerings from such hardware giants as IBM and Compaq.

Hundreds of the world's best engineers contribute to the improvement of Linux. The powerful operating system he wrote, Linux, has grown into a major force in the computer industry, while its voluntary development model has made Linux the world's largest collaborative project. Just for Fun chronicles Torvaldss amazing lifefrom his eccentric childhood in Finland, to his gangly, geeky teenage years when his greatest joy was writing programs on his grandfathers VIC-20 computer, to his rise to world-wide fame with Linux. Today, Torvalds has become the key figure in the open source software movement. He quips, 'I couldn't afford software that I liked, so I wrote my own operating system.' Not only did he write the operating system, he gave it away and invited other software engineers to improve it. In short, Just for Fun tells the inspiring story of how a single passionate software developer can change the world and have fun doing it. Ten years ago, college student Linus Torvalds retreated to his own computer to write code. Linus writes in Just for Fun as he does on the kernel mailing list - direct and to the point.

Just for fun the story of an accidental revolutionary