Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away

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Linus on SCO, and the Desktop Being 10 Years Away

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 18, 2004 @04:48AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this interview from last week's Linux.conf.au in Australia, Linus Torvalds talks about how the SCO lawsuit 'riled' him and led him to spend a week writing an application to archive his email, and how he think Linux will take 5 to 10 years to become mainstream on the desktop."

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Doop De Doop by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 04:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's a dupe!
pist frist! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 04:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1p
FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 04:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

WOOHOO!
0wn3d by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 04:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

All Your base are belong to us

http://intense.homelinux.com
Re:Linus and the P2P Fileswapper victims of the RI by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Should that be "Linii" ?
Re:It's all about the desktop journey by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Gotta love-that-trip ... no work to do, eh pad're? Don't earn a living? Momma must take good care of you. It's back to the closet - grope your fav electro-mechanic blo-up dolly in private.
Re:Much like Fusion by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Much like duke nukem forever
Re:GNAA NIGGERS by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dude you must be bored.
Re:Would he opensource his little email app? by geekoid · 2004-01-18 05:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

toss a giggle in there and you'd sound just like a 12 year old girl talking to some guy named 'Cory'.

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Re:Sat. night by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"There was this one chick in tight camo jeans and a tight gray sweater.. I wanted to slam her 'alf a foot so badly."

But instead, you left off taking a bus home with nothing better to do than make fun of hippies. (Who, incidentally, got laid, unlike yourself.)
Re:Sat. night by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 05:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thank you for that, and please post more when you've had an even greater number of beers!

I like little fiery redheads, mesel'.
Re:Much like Fusion by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 07:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

/. == Dupe Nukem Forever
Re:93 arrested in gay orgy by xtrucial · 2004-01-18 07:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's real! Page is slow to load, though. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page /0,5478,8426823%255E663,00.html
Desktop Linux by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 07:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just loaded Fedora on my machine.
Very impressed. (previously used slackware, debian, suse and previous redhats)

from a 3 cd iso image I have a fully functional desktop computer in under an hour (not counting download of images)
So far, downloaded email through Mozilla, listened to cd with xmms and tested sound juicer out.

I would recommend this as a functional desktop family system.

fwiw.
Re:Linux and the effects of free by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-18 08:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

take the first step into communism, where noone wins.
Who is this Noone guy? Is that Darl's middle-name?
If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz!
Re:I will disagree. by __aagmrb7289 · 2004-01-18 11:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Warning: this child likes to TROLL. Try not to feed the trolls!