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- shibz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15hmmm it seems like every article about Linus has that same pic of him
- mucnix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11APC: Out of curiosity, do you have anything to say to hardware manufacturers who refuse to release datasheets or specifications about the functioning of their hardware so it could operate with the Linux kernel?
LT: Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong? - ilovenicotine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8If by "cleaned it up" you mean re-wrote it.
- bdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Interesting interview.
- DAaaMan64, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"Live and let live" - Ted Nugent
;) - vwvan, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7linus didn't invent unix, nor did stallman, they just cleaned it up.
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Linus doesn't give a lot of speeches or goes out into public very much so there aren't a lot of photos floating around. The latest I've seen him was when he was giving a Google Tech Talk about git several months ago. He has lost weight since that photo. Looks a lot better. He blimped up after coming to America, but that's what fast food will do to you. He used to be very stereotypical too with his glasses and him being so skinny that his biggest fear is of falling through a crack in the floor. His weight is pretty average now and he has had laser eye surgery.
Working hard or hardly working?: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/pictures/linus1.gif
One day we'll see this in a Microsoft commercial. Notice how skinny he is: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/logos/pictures/linus2.gif
After coming to the US: http://m0sia.ru/gallery2/d/40-2/Linus+Torvalds+in+a+Speedo.jpg
Most recent video of our benevolent dictator talking at Google about git from May 14, 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 - cityscape, on 08/01/2008, -1/+5Amusing to see "MSN" at the top of the article and "Powered By Sun" to the right.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Debian isn't that technical distro anymore. There are some people that thinks that Debian is a difficult distro just for its early days (that seems to include Torvalds too). Anyways, this is what happens when you make a good branding (which is bad in this case).
- JonForTheWin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4woot
- Meep3D, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You buy clothes and goods made by children in sweatshops. You buy disease ridden, abused, factory farmed meat (animals have feelings and personality, would you have a problem with me kicking a dog to death, and if you subscribe to the current animal industry, you cannot), factory farmed chickens + eggs. If you ever bought your wife/girlfriend a diamond or various other precious stones its a good chance it was mined by slaves and the money was spent on weapons, not to mention the oil you use funds totalitarian regimes and destroys the planet.
But no! DRM is the big issue, and Microsoft, for supporting closed source, is the most evil company on the planet.
Get real. - oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2interesting but tinged with too much bitterness. It reads like one of those "my story" pieces in the tabloids
It seems the guy suffered burnout (to an extent induced by the futility of getting his work accepted) and can't look at code anymore. Happens to a lot of pioneering scientists - Shootfast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Haha, Watch out for those drop bears Linus
- undetected, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually, I found -ck's interview, through a link from that article, more interesting.
- troye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2FWAP FAP FAP FAP!
Just kiddin'. - CurtHowland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I remember a saying amongst Debian users (ca. 1996):
"The Debian installer may be ugly, but you only use it once."
It hasn't been ugly for a looong time. - damentz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4"APC. Thank you Linus. Linuxus Victa! (Heh!)"
Wow, was that supposed to be funny? - oolatin79, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting indeed. What I found the most interesting though, was his comment on the "hardcore" linux distros:
"Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me" - whiteguysamurai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I dislike the frothing-at-the-mouth ideology (to me, ideology should be something personal, not something you push on other people) and I think it's much more interesting to see how Open Source actually generates a better process for doing complex technology, than push the "freedom" angle and push an ideology."
Amen, - diegoviola, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1Linus rocks, the best ever.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2He uses fedora and suse, i wouldn't of guessed that of him. I figured he would be into slack, or gentoo? But redhat has been around along time though
- CurtHowland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, I'd say that demonstrates Ispep's point perfectly.
- MoFoKeR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1forgive me for being sarcastic but ..doesnt a linux geek spend all his free time talking about the future of linux?
- Sard106, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"... Linux took a lot more pragmatic approach to what used to be called "Free Software" (and is still called that by some)"
Do you feel the love, Richard? - tardpicard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Since when is Debian hard to install, Gentoo, okay, not the easiest, but Debian? I work on Fedora servers at work, but I like to run Debian at home, I guess I'm not the biggest fan of the rpm.
- tardpicard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WHAT!?!?!!!?!?! know HOW to "custom" compile packages!?!?!?!?!? Umm, wow, WHAT!!?!?!?!??! I'd normally have some words, but you've just left me speechless.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I didn't say ubuntu, I said ubuntu fanboys. Get it right next time before you start calling people names.
- Darkhacker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ahem... http://www.osnews.com/story.php/12956/Torvalds-Use-KDE
Though he might like Kubuntu. - CurtHowland, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Stallman didn't clean up UNIX. Stallman helped create an environment for people to really use the system.
Linus _did_ clean up UNIX.
Simple evolutionary forces, really. With closed code, there is less need for clarity. Open code is constantly being combed and scrubbed. Sure, there may be a obfuscated kluge of a subsystem in a closed-source program that is faster at one thing, but if it ever develops a bug it will be hell to fix. This is the reason why some people still try saying that traditional UNIX is "better" than Linux, while Linux development and reliability runs rings around the cobwebbed UNIX code.
Easy enough to see when looking at the Top500 supercomputers and what they use for their OS. - Skeithy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I was surprised by that too, always seemed like kernel developers wouldn't want precompiled binaries because they would obviously know how to custom compile packages to work better for them.
- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Thats right, you should push copyrights, DRM on people, have backdoors, and install spyware instead. Oh you paid for your PC? Who gives a *****, we tell you how you can use it!
- nayr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Stallman wrote the 'unix' you use. Linus didn't do crap with unix. He wrote a kernel.
- 7of7, on 10/10/2007, -9/+7"to me, ideology should be something personal, not something you push on other people"
Well said, too bad none of the current FOSS groups seem to agree. - JackyJ, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Damn he should try ubuntu some time.
- ilovenicotine, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3I hereby knight you, Sir. Randall Douche, Arise, Sir Douche!
- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1You're quoting a redneck, washed up, racist rock musician?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Mainly the ubuntu fanboys.
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0On Digg, everybody's a fanboy.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3[quote]And there was that time he was bitten by a ferocious real-life penguin.[/quote]
Linus was bitten by a penguin in a dispute over trademark violations. Linus is lucky that the Linux mascot isn't a giant monster lizard like Mozilla's. - chrismgtis, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Linus seriously gets on my nerves, therefore this is dugg down for being lame.
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0How the ***** does one replacing a random syllable with a derogatory term make it a "ha-ha great insult"?
- zwaldowski, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0How, *****? Ubuntu is liked (and widely criticized) for including proprietary drivers, allowing easy codec installation, et al.
- ZephyrNinety, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3I'm a Linux user. Love it to death. But if Linus Torvalds even farts the wrong way, it ends up on the front page of Digg. What gives?
- purag66, on 05/13/2009, -7/+0this guy's still alive? damn i'm young
- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Linus Torvalds is over rated.
- RandaII, on 10/10/2007, -12/+4Thats right bitches he uses fedora not ucraptnu
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