So Linus always denies the image of the godly ascetic, who just needs his ones and zeros to live. The book has the one or the other laugher and some surprises, too. He is doing it just in the first part of the book and even there he writes in a non geek compatible way, what I think is a pity, because in my opinion the target group of the book are mainly people who are interested in that technical stuff and in more details. Linus writes, that he don't want to go to deep into the technology. The triffle that I can criticise is about the technical aspects of the book.

But I think that's quite normal for books in this genre. It's not rousing, not “I can't stop to read”. There is just one little thing to criticise, the rest of the biography is good. In this context I want to mention the part about the meeting with Steve Jobs and some comments about Willam Gates, whereas the statements about “the enemy” are usually fair. Linus ist writing a lot about open source and the fight of the movement against the old-established business models. So the father of the mother is morfar and his wife is mormor. I liked the distinction between the paternal granddad and the maternal grandddad, for example: The finnish word for father is far, the father of the father is farfar.

Because of this time period this book can be titled as “A subjective history of computers” and you really learn some things about the past, you probably didn't know before, except when you lived as Geek in that time.īeside Linus life the reader gets impressions of getting a personal computer in this early years, of programming of operating systems, of nostalgia of old hardware as well as the early internet in newsgroups and of finnisch saunas.Įspecially the details one gets about the home of the kernel hacker are interesting.

Linus memoirs are starting in his childhood and end somewhere around the millenium. That might be true, but in this case “Just for fun – The story of an accidental revolutionary” proved me wrong. First I thought, that biographies can never reach the depth of novels. It took some time, but now the first (read) biography is detectable in my bookcase. Dieser Beitrag ist auch in deutsch verfügbar (empfohlen).

Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds