Celebrating some hard work

[Hans Leidekker]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 22:21, Dimi Paun wrote:

> Guys, this is simply *amazing*! I'm in constant awe at the quality
> and volume of the patches that I've seen lately, to speak nothing of
> the difficulty behind them.

Just yesterday I happened to came across this paragraph from the book
Open Sources (from the chapter written by Linus Torvalds), from 1999:

> But the most exciting developments for Linux will happen in user space,
> not kernel space. The changes in the kernel will seem small compared to
> what's happening further out in the system. From this perspective, where
> the Linux kernel will be isn't as interesting a question as what features
> will be in Red Hat 17.5 or where Wine (the Windows emulator) is going to
> be in a few years.     

It's a few years later now. Wine hasn't reached 1.0 yet, but Red Hat
hasn't reached 17.5 either ;-) 

 -Hans