my linux heros

General Discussion
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  1. Linus Benedict Torvalds (who else at no 1)

  2. Eric Steven Raymond

  3. Richard Matthew Stallman

  4. Rob Malda

  5. Jean-Marc Merlin

this is only a few of the people behind the great open source platform i love and promote to outhers

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note to self Richard Matthew Stallman would shoot you as not one mention of GNU after all we all use gnu/linux

linux is just a kernel

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must look at the debian website to see if they are still working on gnu/hurd os

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Mine tend to be people that have “personally” helped me out, like members of this and other forums, Mad Penguin, and a few others.

To me “Linux Heroes” are the people that freely and selflessly give their time helping total strangers further their Linux knowledge on a more personal level :slight_smile:

That doesn’t mean I don’t highly regard the people on your list … I just have a different definition of “Linux Hero” :wink:

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i guess your right in witch case it has to be my mum who went the extra mile to take to exeter uni every tuesday night when i was 12 for night classes because i didnt want to join the football/cricket clubs

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Now that’s a hero :slight_smile: … Mom’s are generally hero’s anyway, but that makes her a “Linux Hero” too.

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oh and my maths teacher for putting up with me “helping” him build the school network after school in 1981 (would never got to grips with unix without him)

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Surely its Mark Greaves ::slight_smile:

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Thanks Toonman … but now it looks like I was fishing :wink:

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;Ddo you think we could make an yearly award ceremony (the tux’es)

"and the nominations for linux hero 2012 are "

;D

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after a bit of thinking i put forward

mad Penguin

and

Mark Greaves

just because i’m a creep ;D

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I’m beginning to regret saying it now … I meant others, I had selfish reasons for helping people … I do it to learn,and because I enjoy it, but the original idea was to learn by researching other peoples problems, as I was unlikely to come across them all myself.

That’s the way I learn best.

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the fact you help outhers out when they are in trouble is close to what a hero is to me (your own reason for your action is neither here or there but i share the reasons when i help people if i can as you say its a nice way of learning things we might not outher wise) :slight_smile: