Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, announced he will giveaway a built guitar pedal to a random kernel developer. Torvalds, known for his love of LEGO and tinkering, revealed he built several guitar pedal kits during the holidays and enjoyed the experience. He intends to purchase a kit from Aion FX and build it himself, sending it to the lucky winner.
in his weekly state-of-the-kernel post, which on Sunday US time informed the Linux world that release candidate seven for version 6.13 of the Linux kernel “is slightly bigger than normal, but considering the timing, it's pretty much where I would have expected, and nothing really stands out.”
He kept up that tradition last year, but “also ended up doing a number of guitar pedal kit builds” which he described as “LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron". For the uninitiated, guitar pedals change the sound of an electric guitar in various ways. They’re usually a small metal box that includes a few dials to alter sound and are activated by a built-in footswitch. They’re ubiquitous, cheap, and fun.
He’ll pick a winner at random, use his own money to buy a pedal kit from a company called Aion FX, and then “build it with my own shaky little fingers, and send it to the victim by US postal services.”
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