📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session
Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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🌍 In Chile's Atacama Desert, rare fog called "camanchaca" drifts inland from the Pacific. Some plants here survive by absorbing water directly from this fog, not from rainfall. ✨
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🌍 Some arid desert landscapes feature ancient, dried-up riverbeds called wadis that can flood suddenly after rare rains, quickly turning from bare channels to rushing streams in a matter of hours. ✨
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🌍 Libya’s Libyan Desert holds sand seas with dunes reaching up to 180 meters tall. These giant dunes constantly shift with the wind, creating landscapes that can look completely different in just a few years. ✨
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🌍 In the Taklamakan Desert of China, some sand dunes reach up to 300 meters tall. Shifting winds keep these giant dunes moving, constantly reshaping the landscape year after year. ✨
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🌍 The Atacama Desert in Chile is so dry that some weather stations have never recorded rain. Its Mars-like soils are studied by scientists searching for signs of life in extreme environments. ✨
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🌍 The Namib Desert is thought to be the oldest desert on Earth, with arid conditions lasting for at least 55 million years—far longer than any other known desert. ✨
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