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Linus Moves To OSDL, Will Work On Kernel Full-Time
worldwideweber writes "With the announcement of the release of the 2.5.72 version of the Linux kernel came the news that Linus Torvalds will be leaving Transmeta for OSDL to work on the linux kernel full-time. The email calls this a leave of absence for about one year." Update: 06/17 17:19 GMT by T : As many readers have pointed out, the length of Linus' leave is not actually specified in this email.
My god.
You actually *paid* for the privelidge of being the idiot who FPs an article?
You really need to get out more (says the person who's been visiting every five minutes to see this story come out of the future).
Has he got his clearance certificate from SCO?
Have the Chinese agreed to 'release' him from Transmeta?
(this last one hurts a bit)...
while extolling the Linux kernel, we used to say:
Hey, MS spends $5bn in R&D for a lousy OS. A single chappie named Linus maintains the entire Linux kernel in his spare time! Can't say that any more...
Anyways, all the best!
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
He's gonna really need a good spam filter now.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
OSDN, The parent of Slashdot, has filed a lawsuit against Linus today for cut-and-pasting the first three letters of OSDN.
CmdrTaco was quoted and saying "Linus and this Shift-Insert stuff is getting WAY out of control".
Linus was unavailable to paste in a reply.
1. Work on open source projects .com startup; startup tanks
2. No profit
3. Get jealous; go to
4. No profit
5. Return to open source projects
6. No profit
His itinerary includes a brief stop-over in Utah, during which time he will hunt down Darl McBride and maul his body beyond recognition. His court defense will be temporary sanity and David Boies will merrily defend him to acquittal.
Can I bum a sig? I left mine at the office.
There's a leak in the Linus kernel, someone please post a patch.
Linus Torvalds has very recently stated that spam filtering -- right in the kernel -- is now a slated feature for Linux 2.6.
My journal has hot
Now, let's not all sell our Transmetta stock at the same time...
There's something about these two changes I find amusing. I admit I have no idea what they mean, which is probably why:
Daniel Ritz:
o [PCMCIA] fix yenta unload oops
David S. Miller:
o [TCP]: Use proper time_*() comparisons on jiffies
Too true, especially when you look down at the bottom of his email:
Trond Myklebust:
o Fix rpc dentry list usage
o Copy comments from System V file system routines to make it more "unix like."
From the nytimes article, about OSDL:
The organization was created with an investment of $20 million from I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Computer Associates, NEC and Fujitsu.
What no SCO?
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Have you SEEN linus? If hes a posterboy then I have a shoe in at beauty contests ;)
Gnome wasnt built in a day.
Finally the SCO suit is showing some effect! Linux's leader is abdicating and fleeing the scene. Exactly as the nazis left Germany and took up hiding in South America.
I guess that this means we can all get back to conducting serious business based on SCO Unix - the bread and butter of many a development company.
(In 20 years time we'll probably see Torvalds daughter marrying the Swedish king!)
While we are posting stories about people changing jobs...
Just last week I started a new job after a long and tedious four and a half year tenure at my former job. In this new job I'll finally get to work on things other than fighting fires. I'm very excited. Just thought everyone would like to know.
--
"What do you want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? Cause I'm married."
...posted on Slashdot, you ARE the alpha geek.
That is all.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I was reading wired and they were talking about how after people leave their jobs after being interviewed in Wired. Barry Diller left Vivendi right after he was interviewed, and some other that I can remember because I left the issue at home. This was in the letters to the editor section for anyone that has a copy. One of the editors guessed that since Linus was getting interviewed in this months article, he was going to leave. He said something to the point of " anyone looking for a decent Unix programmer" in reference to Linus. Somebody should have the damn article.
Hey it could be worse - ESR looks like he was born when God was going through his "cubist" phase.
What is a kernel? And who is this Linus guy? WINDOWS XP Rocks!
Since I'm ignorant enough not to know what OSDL stands for, and lazy enough that I don't feel like searching for it, I'm just going to make something up. Here are my top 5 so far:
1. Open Source Developer Land
2. Oprah's Singular Dance Legends
3. Oops, Stallman Dissed Linus
4. O'Reilly Still Dignifies Linux
5. Official Simpsons Disco Library
(I suspect I'm on to something with #2...)
> There's not a single chance for SCO to sue them.
Not having a good case hasn't stopped them before...