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Linus Interviewed
a9db0 writes "There is a somewhat low-content interview with Linus here in the Seattle Times about his move to Portland. It does have a couple of Linus classic one-liners."
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I wonder how many votes Linus will get in this US presidential election...
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
Once again, I would like to thank the article submitter (as well as the Slashdot editor) who posted this story for giving us NO background information on who this Linus guy is. Are we all expected to instantly recognize every Joe Schmoe that has an interview posted online?
Next time, a little background info would be helpful people!
It's only spelled "Linus."
It's pronounced "Luxury Yacht."
It's like that old series of Peanuts strips where everything Charlie Brown looks at, he sees a baseball. Anything Slashdot looks at this month, it sees the U.S. presidential election, and filters it through that context. A Linus Tourvalds article is about the presidential election. A Java vs C# article is like the presidential election. AN ARTICLE ABOUT A GOOGLE SHAREWARE APP BECOMES ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
P.S.: And in answer to your question, the last gallup poll showed Linus leading Nader by two points despite the fact that 99% of poll respondents had never heard Tourvalds' name before
Under the slashdot story which points to a Linus Torvalds interview there is an advertisement for Windows 2003 server and it's telling me that it's 17% cheaper to run!
Get your Unix fortune now!
Yeah, two and a half hours is SO close.
Those of us here in Portland cower under Microsoft's presence.
> Linus Torvalds (pronounced LEE-nus)
Hmm, does that mean Linux should be pronounced LEE-nux?
I object to that article, and to the next reply.
But we got Jedi recognised as an official religion by writing it on the census paper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2757067.stm
Maybe if you score out one of the existing candidates and write Linus on it instead...
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It should be pronounced Gee-N-You/Lun-ucks.
Thank you
Richard Stallman.
...whether or not he frequents Slashdot.
:-)
Seems important to me, anyway
you must be new here. Linus has done some amazing things
Really? From what I understand, he merely started a now ~15 y/o approximate clone of a pre-existing OS that is still not ready for widespread adoption on desktop systems (despite what many would have you believe).
And yes, I use Linux.
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
You mean, selling freely reproducable bits in shrinkwrap packages with extremely high profit margins isn't the American Dream? It sure as shit is MY dream. Microsoft has over $40 billion in the bank because they were able to charge money for something that costs them almost nothing to reproduce after they poured investment into the first. That's a nice racket, and I for one think that IS the American Dream: to make easy money.
You open sores hippies just don't get it, and damn if your ideals are going to get any mainstream acceptance and end up devaluing my MSFT stock and other investments. A healthy respect for intellectual property is something America NEEDS for the american dream to continue to be there for the generation, folks.
It had to be said.
Yes, Microsoft has a PR problem, but to call them greedy and anti-American Dream is taking things way too far. Microsoft fucking epitomizes the American Dream.
Microsoft made billions selling licenses to great software, and created a vibrant ecosystem where everyone respects everyone elses intellectual property rights. Linux and other communist-type free software ideals threaten to destroy that ecosystem which employs so many people! Take Econ101.
I (as a Portlander) for one welcome our new Finish overlord.
-jim
Definitely the best line:
and I don't know why, but it made me laugh.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?
Isn't it obvious? He's gradually moving in so the secret anti-Microsoft secret commando mission can take place. Give it another couple months and Linus and his cronies will have infiltrated Microsoft.
Saying "I'll probably get modded down for this" in a post is the best way to get it modded up.
Is there any way an AC can mod Linus + gajillion Insightful for that quote?
Are you *really* Alan Cox?
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Being from SoCal; What is this "rain" that you speak of?
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
Holy batshit, you can't be serious?!
America is officially jumping the shark.
They don't need good PR, because they're focusing on other solutions instead.
source to backup claim?
#!/bin/sh
echo "there are indeed 2 million folks developing for linux"
there you go. i.. umm.. developed that source, so make it 2000001 folks.
Linus has moved to Portland, OR, which is a fine thing, and as others have noted, that puts him amusingly close to Redmond, WA.
I believe that this may provide a possible explanation for the recent eruption of a volcano (Mt. St. Helens) fairly close to the midpoint between Bill and Linus.
You're right. Let me write some basic info about Linus:
Linus Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) began the development of Linux, an operating system kernel, and today acts as the project coordinator. Inspired by the teaching system Minix (developed by Andrew Tanenbaum), he felt the need for a capable UNIX operating system that he could run on his home PC. Torvalds did the original development of the Linux kernel primarily in his own time and on his equipment. Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Nils and Anna Torvalds. Both of his parents were campus radicals at the University of Helsinki in the 1960s, his father a Communist who in the mid-1970s spent a year studying in Moscow. This caused embarrassment to Linus at the time since other children would tease him about his father's politics. His family belongs to the Swedish-speaking minority (roughly 6% of Finland's population). Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling. He attended the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996, graduating with a masters degree in computer science. Torvalds lived for many years in San Jose, California with his wife Tove (six-time Finnish national Karate champion), whom he first met in fall 1993, his cat Randi (short for Mithrandir, the Elvish name for Gandalf, a wizard in The Lord of the Rings), and his three daughters Patricia Miranda (born December 5, 1996), Daniela Yolanda (born April 16, 1998) and Celeste Amanda (born November 20, 2000). In June 2004, Linus purchased a home in Beaverton, Oregon and enrolled his children in school in that area. He worked for Transmeta Corporation from February 1997 until June 2003, and is now seconded to the Open Source Development Labs, a Beaverton, Oregon based software consortium. Linus and his family recently moved to Portland, Oregon in an effort to be closer to his employer. His personal mascot is a penguin nicknamed Tux, widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of Linux. Linus's law, a tenet inspired by Linus and coined by Eric S. Raymond in his paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." A deep bug is one which is hard to find, and with many people looking for it, the hope (and so far most experience) is that no bug will be deep. Both men share an open source philosophy, which has been in part (and implicitly) based on this belief. Linus Torvalds Unlike many open source "evangelists", Torvalds keeps a low profile and generally refuses to comment on competing software products, such as Microsoft's commercially dominant Windows operating system. He is neutral enough to even have been criticized by the GNU project, specifically for having worked on proprietary software with Transmeta and for his use and alleged advocacy of Bitkeeper. Nevertheless, Torvalds has occasionally reacted with strong statements to what has been widely perceived as anti-Linux (and anti open source) FUD from proprietary software vendors like Microsoft or SCO. For example, in one e-mail reaction to statements by Microsoft Senior-VP Craig Mundie, who criticized open source software for being non innovative and destructive to intellectual property, Torvalds wrote: "I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton? He's not only famous for having set the foundations for classical mechanics (and the original theory of gravitation, which is what most people remember, along with the apple tree story), but he is also famous for how he acknowledged the achievement: If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants ... I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost
three hundred years, but despit
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
...Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.
I've heard that when celebrities mention they like things like Pepsi or Nike during TV interviews, they receive huge amounts of products from the manufacturers as a sort of thanks for the unsolicited and valuable publicity.
Gunning for a new toy Linus?
I need to be more Linus like in my day to day life
Except for exercise. Get more exercise. Especially if you're going to take your shirt off at Linux meets like the one in SA. Thanks.
Sick of gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
Hey! There is an ebuild that will automate that sig for you! And it will run really fast since you set the compiler flags yourself!
Linus would be very at home in Minnesota
A lot of people from that part of the world seem to be.
I'd love to hear Garrison Keillor interview Linus.
So long as they didn't get into some kind of understated irony competition, of course. I don't think space-time could take it, you'd end up in some kind of conversational singularity.
From TFA: "Linus Torvalds [pronounced LEE-nus]..."
1) wow. I never would've guessed that's how you say 'Torvalds'. Those wacky Finns...
2) So that makes him "LI-nus LEE-nus"?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I tried to be more like Linus, but his wife kicked me out of Linus's house and said she'd call the cops if I came back. To hell with trying to be like Linus - I don't want to go to jail !!
You are, of course, right.
But I liked grandparent's idea a hella lot more. "Linus as Mothra". Whoa, dude. Whoa.