This, coming from the man who didn’t like working with the Minix OS that was available to him so coded his own operating system. What everybody wants is this magical toy that can be used to browse the Web, write term papers, play games, balance the checkbook, and so on. It isn’t deep, but its a good setup for what comes about 200 pages later in a section called “The Amusement Ride Ahead”: Again, this crap is usually off-putting but I found myself tolerating it here.) Who knows if it actually happened that way. (It’s presented as a transcript of a talk between the authors, with Linus’s wife and young daughter chiming in with cute mundanities while on a road trip. In the opening, the author is discussing the progression of human activities from a focus on survival to a focus on entertainment. This is the sort of thing that usually makes me groan, but it’s tolerable somehow in Just for Fun. There’s a stylistic choice in Linus Torvalds’ Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, I suspect put there by the mass-market writing savvy co-author David Diamond, to intersperse the tale of Linux’s development and rise to (server market, at least) dominance with little vignettes of Linus’s daily life and casual conversations (rants?) about this and that.
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