Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux

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."

Comments

They missed one.

[grub]

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..

people say a lot of stuff

[El_Muerte_TDS]

640kb is more than we'll ever need

Re:people say a lot of stuff

[micromoog]

Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

Re:people say a lot of stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

Re:people say a lot of stuff

[happyfrogcow]

Slashdot... Stuff that Matters ;)

(kidding!)

Re:people say a lot of stuff

[TimoP]

Windows is about choice.

Won't be moving back to Finland

[burgburgburg]

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?

Whoa there!

[hobuddy]

I think you mean GNU/Christ, brother.

Re:Australia?

[RabidStoat]

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?

[arloguthrie]

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.

Re:Australia?

[Gordonjcp]

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...

[Joel Bruick]

Oh no! Not "every goddamn year since 2002"! That's been...two whole years!

Re:Yet another...

[pantherace]

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:Australia?

[G-funk]

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!