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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.
...as he is just about to hand over maintenance of 2.5/2.6 to Andrew Morton. So maybe he actually hopes to do some hacking again, instead of just integrating other peoples' work. Cool!
I was looking at transmeta based notebooks, couldn't seem to find one that shipped without windowsXP. Hands up anybody who thinks this strange.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Is this related to Transmeta wanting to distance themselves from Linux until the SCO bull$hit is resolved? Hopefully it will be quick, but I can't help but wonder what kind of ace SCO is holding in reserve. Even if they don't really have an ace, businesses seem to be preparing themselves for the possibility that SCO may win a partial victory.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
A year's leave also just happens to give him time where he could be an expert witness or consultant in certain legal matters.
Excuse my ignorance but what is List Poisoning?
I feel like I should know this but I don't.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
hands up! however, i have a transmeta based notebook and can't say anything bad about it (other than XP being there, which i'm required to keep...). with two full batterys i get about 10 hours of juice, which is just awesome. and as far as processing power, how much do you really need on a laptop? most of the time you're just surfing the web and writing so it's not that important to have a render-farm of processing power.
I write code.
I've been critical of Transmeta for their hype-building. But one should give them credit for attempting a very tough feat: trying to build an x86 compatible CPU that is faster than both Intel and AMD. This is *not* easy. Particularly since they came on the scene right in the middle of particularly fierce AMD/Intel performance competition. They failed, so they repurposed their design for small power requirements, which is respectable and a reasonable attempt to recover the original investment. And now they find that beating ARM isn't that easy either, eh? Quelle surprise.
That's a great job application - too bad it's not a real one...
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Well it seems fairly stable.
um hello, .com boom the were worth over $20 million (according to his autobiography) and are probably still worth in excess of $2 million
he has stock (options) from VA Linux, and Redhat as well as Transmeta. at the height of the
doing something you love: Priceless
the best you can ask for with a laptop is a ditributor who is prepared to sell it OS free, and knock a few £ (or $) off the asking price because of that.
And the number of Linux purposed Transmeta systems out there ? Or Server based systems ? Transmeta is aiming at the notebook market where Linux is pretty much unheard of, then at the lower-scale where again the majority of systems are not Linux.
I have no doubt the guy is brilliant, but isn't it a bit strange given the markets Transmeta aimed at that they wanted lots of Linux development.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
The nice thing about Linux/BSD (compared to Windows) is that for older laptops, Linux gets you more bang for the buck.
I'm not sure what your typical laptop usage is for, but I tend to use my laptop for email, news, coding and light web browsing.
Either I'm stuck with older windows OSes and unpatched software, or I can throw in a debian cd, install only what I need, and have a fast enough system for 90% of what I do.
The actual number of people maintaining the NT Kernel is comparable. The Kernel perf team (with whom I worked) is about 3 people. That total team responsible for the kernel is maybe 50 people -- similar #s for SQL Server.
There are hordes of "evangelists" and "managers" surrounding the core team. But within the small core group, the personalities and philosphies of the NT team and the Linux folks are remarkably similar, with the minor exception that neither understands why the hell the other exists!
Yeah, especially when they came out with Midori and were touting embedded devices. Sadly, Midori hasn't been updated in almost two years. I still run it on my Compaq IA-1 and it does what I need it to do, but it would be nice to see some new features / updated packages.
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Have you tried a version of Windows post 3.1/NT4? Not only does the plug'n'play work automagically *without* the need to modprobe (assuming the hardware supports it), but you've also got a better than even chance that any hardware you go to the shop and buy will Just Work
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Been in NT since at least 3.5 - IIRC, before Linux got it (IIRC NT3.5 was released in 1994, which puts us at about kernel 1.0... anyone care to correct me here)
Cheers
Jon
Time to brush up on your Ayn Rand and your ESR. Most open-source developers (including me) couldn't care less about "the benefit of everyone on earth", "the common good", or any of those other throwaway commie bromides. We're doing it to "scratch an itch"--either we want some software that doesn't currently exist, and the fastest way to make it exist is to fire up a project and harness the collborative power of the Internet; or we're intellectually attracted to some or another project that our day job doesn't let us touch on. Assuming we even code for a day job. It has way less to do with altruism than you make it sound. Humans are selfish.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.