Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possibleIf you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." We know that the "hobby" operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.…