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Laurence Culhane
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Laurence Culhane : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Among those who made major contributions to the Linux
kernel yet moved on to a relatively hack-free lifestyle, Laurence
Culhane is one of those who stands out. A radio presenter for the BBC
when he first encountered Linux, today Laurence is a senior BBC
journalist. But in between then and now, he enjoyed several heady years
in the thick of Linux kernel hacking. He recalls,
It was fun. At first I didn't realize how revolutionary the idea was--
it seemed so natural. It wasn't perfect, and with only limited free
time, I found it quite hard to keep up with the demands for improvements
to what had initially been just a quick hack to keep me connected.
Like many others, including Linus Torvalds himself, Laurence's Linux
hack sprang from ``purely selfish reasons.'' As he tells the story,
I wanted Usenet and e-mail, and for that I needed SLIP/PPP. Neither had
been written at the time, so I went and looked at the RFC's and wrote
something that gave me adequate SLIP access.
Laurence wrote the original alpha SLIP code for the Linux kernel ``and
sent Linus the odd patch when I couldn't get other code to port and it
looked like a kernel issue.'' Given Laurence's need-based arrival in the
world of Linux and open-source software, it is little surprise that much
of the philosophy behind the Linux movement was initially lost on him:
``I hadn't thought about free software, free speech or anything at that
point. I just wanted Linux to work.''
What attracted him to Linux? ``The fact that it was free was the first
reason I looked at it,'' Laurence admits. ``I'd just left the
university, had no money and certainly couldn't afford thousands of
pounds [for] a commercial UNIX license.'' It was at the university where
Laurence got his first taste of a major UNIX system. Having built his
first s-100 z-80A system at the age of 15, he ``fell in love with BSD
UNIX'' while at the university, ``found a 32016 S-100 CPU and MINIX and
never left.''
Although Laurence no longer considers himself a Linux developer, he is
still a regular Linux user and tries to keep up with the latest
developments in Linux in general and the kernel in specific. While he
thinks the current popularity surrounding Linux is ``great,'' he thinks
a little reserve is probably a good idea. He says,
I think it's important that people don't get overzealous about Linux ...
I'm a passionate fan; I had never even used an MS product until 1998
when work dictated that I did. [But] I'm suggesting that my dad have a
dual-boot Linux-Windows machine, with a Mac emulator under Linux because
having access to all three operating systems is the right solution for
his job.
Laurence Culhane's e-mail address is
laurence.culhane@bbc.co.uk.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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