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Wired Interview with Linus Torvalds

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Tones125 writes "Wired has a lengthy interview with Linus Torvalds contrasting the tedium of his humble life with his superhero cult status, and also briefly mentioning his take on the SCO mess, Richard Stallman and John "maddog" Hall. My favourite quote: "He jokingly refers to himself as Linux's hood ornament"."

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  1. Linus by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 1, Troll
    As much as I despise the open source hype and zealotry, I must admit that Linus is one of my favourite characters in this show.

    His dispassionate and detached approach just makes sense.

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    BOO! TERRO
  2. I have had the same experience, sort of by TheLastUser · · Score: 0, Troll

    I used work for a fortune 1000 company and I too tried to install Linux in place of win2k. I also am an accomplished VB programmer and well as Access, however I have not had your success with getting it to run faster than C.

    I had heard great things about Linux and I decidedd that I would install and optimize it to run our enterprise web application (previously on win2k/access). I used PostgreSql in place of Access and Apache instead of IIS.

    Everthing worked ok in development, the usual reboots every day or so, as is common with Linux. Then we switched the new application to production and all hell broke loose.

    We did the switch a 2am so as not to inconvience our user base. When we switched over the cpu jumped to 100% and the linux box started swapping like mad. We started poking around, unwilling to believe that Linux was THIS shitty, but yes it was.

    Then the linux box started smoking and halon came on and two of our MCSE's, who had been cleaning up some wireing in the server room, were overcome by the smoke and lack of oxygen, passing out.

    We pulled the two MCSE's to safety and they are going to be alright. But in the end I lost my job and now nobody will even interview me. My name is ruined in the corporate IT world for my dangerous and unorthodox views. How can I tell them that I have learned my lesson, I WILL NEVER USE OPEN SORES AGAIN!