Just for Fun: The story of an accidental revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and
David Diamond, Texere Publishing, £17.99, ISBN 15879900806
IN 1991 a Finnish university student living in his mother’s apartment posted
a short announcement to a computer newsgroup. It was the beginning of a
revolution. No one could have predicted that Linux, the giveaway operating
system he had just launched, would challenge Microsoft and may yet change the
face of computing.
Now that the success of Linux has made Linus Torvalds a cult hero, we are
treated to the story of his life, Just for Fun. It takes him…
