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- brisbin33, on 04/01/2008, -2/+68Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install current Fedora 9
2. Rick-roll!
3. No profit!
nice - HCviolence, on 04/01/2008, -2/+56Linus is no stranger to love.
- oderdigg, on 04/01/2008, -3/+33I dugg this not just for Linus, but for his support and use of Amarok!!!
"I know sound works, because amarok and other apps have no problem. Any clues?"
Amarok FTW!! - CAPITALLETTERS, on 04/01/2008, -2/+30Linus knows the rules.
- Remmy, on 04/01/2008, -1/+26Tove Torvalds: The true driving force in Linux development.
- bunnyman1, on 04/01/2008, -2/+23A full committment is what he's thinking of.
- dsenman, on 04/01/2008, -0/+16I'm going to assume you probably don't know who he is.
- secleinteer, on 04/01/2008, -0/+16Actually, he just leads the kernel development, which has nothing to do with the GUI, let alone Flash. And only about 2% of the code in the kernel is his - the rest is contributed by other members of the open source community.
- dualscreenman, on 04/01/2008, -1/+16No, this seems real.
- TnTBass, on 04/01/2008, -0/+14What is awesome is that this actually seems like a legitimate bug, presented in a funny way.
Also interesting is that, for at least the time being, Linus uses Fedora. - itanshi, on 04/01/2008, -2/+16no this is goat.se for christians: http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1687/mickeycame ...
- inactive, on 04/01/2008, -3/+16Linux is not desktop ready if the wife strangles you.
- mossblaser, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13This is why he does: if no-one did then when the final rolled round that bug would be there to be found by all the users who tried.
- santaliqueur, on 04/01/2008, -0/+12I love how you don't understand that it's not a joke, since you don't start April Fools jokes after lunch on the 31st.
- koreth, on 04/01/2008, -0/+11This is the guy who wrote the Linux kernel. He didn't write the Flash renderer or the window system or the web browser or the audio player.
- inactive, on 04/01/2008, -0/+10linus loves the rick roll. epic win
- MrTea, on 04/01/2008, -1/+11Linux desktops are serious business.
- capecodcarl, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9I've also heard he dabbles a bit in compiling and running development kernels too rather than just installing a released binary kernel RPM.
- bashpk, on 04/01/2008, -0/+8From the bug report:
This is "high" priority because the wife will kill me if she doesn't have her videos.
He wasnt joking here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Later_ ... - matteusx, on 04/01/2008, -1/+9I got a ±. They're also doing this thing where your comments go to the wrong story.. oh wait
- kenelbow, on 04/01/2008, -1/+8You're doing it wrong!
- Devroush, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858 ...
That's gotta be a digger - oobuntu, on 04/01/2008, -11/+18April Fool?
- kragil, on 04/01/2008, -2/+9So Linus is running KDE4 already? (F9 ist KDE4 only) I always thought he would be more conservative .. I was wrong i guess.
- dsenman, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7No one is talking about him lifting a finger - they're talking about him complaining about not being able to be Rick Rolled. If Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or really any other celebrity did the same thing -- front page too.
- sERIALeATER, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Mabye it's real bug?
- MMaguire, on 04/01/2008, -3/+9Maybe they wouldn't get as much adware and spyware since they would actually have to read about what they are doing. An application install could say if you install this, your computer will burst into flames, but as long as it has a next button, people will click it.
- ldog, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6Why would the author of the kernel automatically know how to fix a bug in a BETA of a bleeding edge distro?
- Remmy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6I code sounds applications and couldn't tell you the first thing about working on graphics related issues. You think knowing a how to code means you know how to code everything?
- VargVikernes, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5Yeah, that's like every linux developer's dream. To some day be as famous as Linus and actually get laid.
- Remmy, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Guess what. We Gnome users can use Amarok too and you know what, some of us like it.
- mossblaser, on 04/01/2008, -1/+6You seem to have totaly missed the point of how beta works. Alpha: Bugs and Missing Features Beta: Feature complete + buggy Release Candidate: No known bugs, All features, Final: Suitable for actual use.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5It works on Linux too.
- mossblaser, on 04/01/2008, -1/+6Any shop that sells beta software would be foolish and if wal mart was one of these then too right that end users would have problems.
- letierri, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5You fail at spam. linky no worky.
- Nerdman01, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4Heh, made me laugh. He is quite funny.
- dexternights, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5Thts a lame excuse.. for not having a GUI. How many of us techies read license agrrements?
- oobuntu, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3or maybe just a troll. digg down, ignore and move on.
- mossblaser, on 04/01/2008, -3/+6If you actually read about Linus you'll realize that actually he is a fairly normal guy living a fairly normal life. His family is his priority, linux is just his pet project. Really, he knows his stuff (obviously) but he is no nerd.
- InorganicMatter, on 04/01/2008, -2/+5Ah, the ravings of a bitter GNOME tool.
- robohoe, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (née Monni) – a six-time Finnish national Karate champion – whom he first met in the autumn of 1993.[5] Torvalds was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.[2]
- VinceNoir, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3THAT is a thing of beauty.
- Atomic1fire, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3So if somebody makes a program for windows and bill gates uses it
is it his fault if it crashes or has a bug and does he have to fix it because bill knows everything since he made windows
No
Just because there is one problem and somebody cant get something to work does not affect the total quality of an operating system - JustAboutReal, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3sure it is... the wife just isn't
- dsenman, on 04/01/2008, -2/+5Yeah I'm going to bet it will be a while until Wal-Mart starts selling Fedora systems. They sell far easier to use Linux distros.
- oobuntu, on 04/02/2008, -1/+3LT: A "specific" one? No. I have changed distributions over the years, and it tends to really end up depending on various random circumstances, like just when I switch machines around and what happens to be convenient.
So right now I happen to run Fedora on my machines, which largely came about from me running on POWER for a few years, and Fedora supported it pretty well (and since I actually don't care that deeply about the distribution, I tend to prefer running the same thing on everything, just to keep any distro issues away).
Before Fedora had PowerPC support, I ran YDL for a while, and before that I had SuSE. 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.
I'm amazed how misinformed/outdated he is about debian. - newwatch51, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2@Rhino2
apt-get install app
OMG THAT WAS SOO HARD! I'M GOING BACK TO WINDOWS NOW! *rolls eyes* How much easier could that have been? - inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2Oh, and 30 seconds is a laughable time just to install the Flash plugin.
- pentupentropy, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2All those people double clicking on vista sure don't seem to be getting much out of it. at least with linux (and everyone should bow to my sociopathy and run Debian with WindowMaker at home) you have a huge resource from which to draw to get an answer, and you don't even have to pay $1/minute to stay on hold.
- ldog, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2You write code and you don't know what a beta is?
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