📰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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🌍 Slovenia’s Škocjan Caves feature an underground canyon over 100 meters deep—the largest in Europe. This karst wonder drains rivers directly from the surface into vast hidden chambers. ✨
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🌍 In Croatia’s Dinaric Alps, karst landscapes hide more than 10,000 known caves and sinkholes. Some systems stretch for over 20 kilometers underground, hosting rare, blind aquatic animals. ✨
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🌍 The world’s largest cave chamber by volume, Sarawak Chamber in Borneo, is big enough to hold 40 jumbo jets. This massive cavern formed naturally in a karst limestone landscape. ✨
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🌍 Vietnam’s Phong Nha Cave features tunnels over 44 kilometers long, with underground rivers and rare cave pearls—smooth mineral balls formed by dripping water in the dark. ✨
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🌍 Some karst caves hold unique stone towers called "speleothems," which form slowly from dripping water. These underground forests can grow over tens of thousands of years. ✨
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🌍 Caves in karst landscapes can grow huge underground chambers thanks to rainwater slowly dissolving limestone rock. Some contain rare crystals and underground rivers hidden from the surface. ✨
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🌍 Rainwater can carve entire underground labyrinths in karst landscapes, creating vast networks of caves, tunnels, and sinkholes—some so deep and complex that new passages are still being found today. ✨
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🌍 Some of the world’s longest underground rivers are hidden in karst landscapes. These rivers can travel for dozens of kilometers beneath the surface before emerging in springs or caves. ✨
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🌍 The world’s largest karst region is in southern China, where vast limestone hills, towers, and deep caves house rare species found nowhere else on Earth, including blind fish and giant salamanders. ✨
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🌍 In Croatia’s Velebit Mountains, karst landscapes feature underground streams that vanish into deep sinkholes, only to reappear as powerful springs many kilometers away. ✨
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🌍 Some karst caves contain rare bacteria that feed on mineral rock, creating colorful biofilms and even helping form new cave crystals—making the underground world alive in ways few people expect. ✨
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