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Ars Technica Interviews Robert Love
functor writes "Ars Technica has interviewed kernel hacker Robert M. Love of MontaVista/Ximian fame. He covers current and future developments in the Linux kernel and on the desktop, particularly concerning the Linux process scheduler and its enhancements for system responsiveness and also his work toward Project Utopia, an effort to make Linux's device management on the (GNOME) desktop transparent and seamless. (Robert Love is the principal hacker who worked on kernel preemption for the Linux 2.6 kernel.)"
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Dean: 'I have all kinds of warts'
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(CNN) -- Three days after the scream heard 'round the world,' Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was still trying to explain his frenzied speech following his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
"I was having a great time," he told ABC's Diane Sawyer on Primetime Thursday. "I am not a perfect person, believe me, I have all kinds of warts. I wear cheap suits sometimes, I say things that I probably ought not to say, but I lead with my heart, and that's what I was doing right there, leading with my heart."
Dean said he was trying to raise the spirits of more than 3,000 disappointed volunteers who had worked so hard for his campaign in Iowa.
When asked if the wild-eyed, fist-pumping speech could hurt his chances to emerge as the Democrat's choice as their candidate for president, the former Vermont governor admitted it could.
"But there's nothing I can do about it. I did it. I own it. And now we have to get back to running for president."
"Was it over the top? Sure, it was over the top. Do I do things that are a little nutty? Sure, I do things that are a little nutty. But the truth is, I was having a great time."
"I'm not apologetic because I was giving everything to people who gave everything to me."
The Monday speech lost Dean the endorsement of Alvaro Cifuentes, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee's Hispanic caucus.
"I have been struggling for the past 48 hours with the performance I saw on TV. I instinctively turned it off after the first few minutes. I respectfully withdraw my present endorsement to Dean's candidacy," Cifuentes wrote in e-mail to the Dean campaign.
The ABC interview also included Dean's wife, Judy, in her first nationally televised appearance. Judy Dean, a doctor who rarely campaigns with her husband, didn't see her husband's Iowa speech until Wednesday night.
"I thought it looked kind of silly," she said of her husband's performance, laughing with him. "I mean, maybe he did a little too much, but that's what he wanted to do. He did it."
Judy Dean said she hasn't been a prominent presence on the campaign trail because she has a busy private medical practice in Vermont and does not want to leave the couple's son home alone. The Deans also have a daughter, who is in college.
"I think if I can help him (Howard), I will. And that doesn't mean he's going to disrupt my life, disrupt my patients, my son, but if he calls on a Saturday, and I'm not on call t
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