Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux

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Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux

Posted by michael on Thursday January 15, 2004 @05:19AM from the huddled-masses-yearning-to-breathe-free dept.

lca writes "Linuxworld Australia has an interview with Linus Torvalds about the current state of the Linux desktop and where it will go this year among other things. Also discussed are topics such as hardware support, the SCO issue, and whether or not he will be moving to Australia."

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They missed one. by grub · 2004-01-15 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

They didn't ask Linus if he paid his $699 licensing fee to SCO. It'd be a shame for him to have to stop working on their OS..

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LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:23 · Score: 2, Funny

...and all the Linux geeks in the world would follow and worship him like deciples.

Can you say "Bill Gates as Pontious Pilate"?

"Look, I'm Linus Christ. I can serve 5000 webpages using 5 analog phone lines and 3 Amigas!"

Yes, I'm making vauge references comparing the Son of God to the Open Source movement. I'm bored and my mind is wandering.

akedia
1. Re:LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  1) Betray Linus
  2) PROFIT!!!!
  3) ?????
2. Re:LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 06:00 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Brilliant! Best use of the 123 business model yet!
  
  As expected I'll start the answers to what the missing option is:
  
  3: Eternal Damnation
people say a lot of stuff by El_Muerte_TDS · 2004-01-15 05:23 · Score: 3, Funny

640kb is more than we'll ever need
1. Re:people say a lot of stuff by micromoog · 2004-01-15 05:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
2. Re:people say a lot of stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I've got weapons of math instruction!
  
  At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later
  discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying
  to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
  protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.
  
  At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft
  said he believes the man is a member of the notorious
  al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with
  carrying weapons of math instruction.
  
  "Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire
  average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off
  on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret
  code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as
  "unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common
  denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
  
  "As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3
  sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.
  
  When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If
  God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction,
  He would have given us more fingers and toes.
  
  "I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that
  it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are
  willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky
  statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of
  influence," the President said, adding: "Under the
  circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our
  point, and draw the line."
  
  President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction
  have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a
  scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a
  Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."
  
  Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would
  say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty
  of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered
  as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."
3. Re:people say a lot of stuff by Savatte · 2004-01-15 05:50 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  hmm..a url with a .cx domain. how bad could it be?
4. Re:people say a lot of stuff by dingbatdr · 2004-01-15 05:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  A pringle is pretty close to being a saddle point.
  
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5. Re:people say a lot of stuff by happyfrogcow · 2004-01-15 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Slashdot... Stuff that Matters ;)
  
  (kidding!)
6. Re:people say a lot of stuff by TimoP · 2004-01-15 06:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Windows is about choice.
7. Re:people say a lot of stuff by wolrahnaes · 2004-01-15 07:47 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Damn You!
  
  Now there's Pepsi all over my laptop and TV!
  
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Won't be moving back to Finland by burgburgburg · 2004-01-15 05:25 · Score: 4, Funny

I definitely won't be moving back to Finland though.
Or is it "Can't move back to Finland"? Has he crossed the Finnish mafia once too often? Did he wake up to find smelt heads in his bed? What's the REAL story here?
1. Re:Won't be moving back to Finland by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:47 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I'm Finnish.
  Finally. That rant was getting pretty tiresome.
2. Re:Won't be moving back to Finland by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:48 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I guess he is just Finnished with them...
If he is moving to Australia... by Soul+Brother+#1 · 2004-01-15 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Also discussed are topics such as hardware support, the SCO issue, and whether or not he will be moving to Australia.

If he is moving to Australia, maybe he can bring LinuxWorld a new webserver.

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So much for Finnish pride by smallpaul · 2004-01-15 05:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Linus says: I do work from home so I could work anywhere. I definitely won't be moving back to Finland though.

The last half of that sentence was a total non-sequiter. Maybe he is trying to get his mother off his back.
Re:No offense, by PatrickThomson · 2004-01-15 05:29 · Score: 2, Funny

Heresey! Say 15 "Hail Linus's"

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Re:Australia? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-15 05:36 · Score: 1, Funny

1) they have kangaroos
2) great barrior reef
3) they say "g'day"
4) lots of outdoors stuff to do
5) toilets flush in opposite direction.
Whoa there! by hobuddy · 2004-01-15 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

I think you mean GNU/Christ, brother.

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Re:Australia? by RabidStoat · 2004-01-15 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

5) toilets flush in opposite direction.
Must get damn expensive in cleaning products. I mean you gotta wonder why someone bright spark hasn't thought about making the stuff go down when you flush.
Re:Australia? by arloguthrie · 2004-01-15 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

There's nothing wrong with Finland, except that it's so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, and lots of miles from Vietnam.

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Re:Australia? by Ba3r · 2004-01-15 05:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Its -30 (wind chill) here in upstate New York today (Northeast USA), don't need to go to Finland for that! (And we are on about the same latitude as Rome!).
Don't forget ... by burgburgburg · 2004-01-15 06:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Patriot Act
Clean Skies Initiative
I'm a compassionate conservative.
Or my favorite:
I was elected President of the United States.
For the glasses. by frostman · 2004-01-15 06:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Um...Why do we want a 3D desktop?

So we can all wear those cool red/blue glasses at work!

Duh!

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Re:Australia? by Gordonjcp · 2004-01-15 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Hmmm, over here in the North of Scotland, it never really gets light in the Winter at 55 degrees North (when will the fucking Slashdot janitors let us use HTML entities? Morons), but in the summer it never really gets dark...
Re:Right... by Joel+Bruick · 2004-01-15 06:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh no! Not "every goddamn year since 2002"! That's been...two whole years!
Re:Linux isn't user friendly. by sik0fewl · 2004-01-15 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

. . . instead we have software with names like yacc, Bison, and ANTLR (all of these programs are used in compiler design).

Yeah, I know. My grandma's gonna be pissed when she can't find the right tools for compiler design.

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Re:Yet another... by pantherace · 2004-01-15 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Recalling a comment on this, which is quoted loosely, and I can't remember the source:
"Every year we had been hearing that this year was to be the year of the LAN. Allsorts of hype, and eventually it died down, and when it did, LANs were everywhere."
I highly suspect that it is going to be like this for linux :)
Re:Yet another... by finse · 2004-01-15 07:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Hey 1998 was the year of Linux on the desktop, for me at least :)

I am now in my 6th year of Linux on the desktop, and I must say... It gets better every year.

finse

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Re:Patience little one -- patience! by Tukla · 2004-01-15 08:53 · Score: 2, Funny

the average user should *not* have to select between filesystems;
He'd better not install XP, then, as that's the first thing it asks you.
Re:Australia? by G-funk · 2004-01-15 11:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Coz it's flamin tops! Crikey! What kind of galah would you have to be to want to move to Ostraya? It's bonza. Sure we're a bit spread out, but you can always get on the al capone when you need to have your weekly earbashing from the rellos. Besides, over in yankie-town you can't get a pavlova, a lamington, or even a nice dead dog's eye with a bit of dead horse! Strewth - how can you trust a nation of people who can't stomach vegemite, and think beer should taste like bud light? You can play the pokies down the local, bet on the fairy league without going to gaol, it's the bestest place on earth - fair dinkum!

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