Linus on All Sorts of Stuff

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 25, 2004 @08:23AM from the do-a-little-dance dept.

Linux Times.Net writes " Linus Torvalds tells of some other programming venues than the Linux kernel, predicts a shadowy outcome for GNU/Hurd, gives some advice to anyone wanting to undertake a large software project and updates us on the latest in kernel development in this email interview by Preston St. Pierre. "

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GNU/HURD by atomic-penguin · 2004-10-25 08:26 · Score: 5, Funny

Shadowy outcome for HURD, who could have seen that one coming?

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1. Re:GNU/HURD by DarkHelmet · 2004-10-25 08:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Umm, Netcraft? They're good at predicting these things ;)
  
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2. Re:GNU/HURD by Darth+McBride · 2004-10-25 08:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The fact the the acronym sounds like NERD should have been the first clue...
3. Re:GNU/HURD by plj · 2004-10-25 09:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Damn me for being a naive fool. I always believed what Linus said and kept waiting. And behold: now he's denying it. Do you think I should change my sig now?
  
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4. Re:GNU/HURD by maxwell+demon · 2004-10-26 00:18 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hurd runs on idealism
  
  Now I understand. Of course, that slows down development a lot, because idealism is rarely found these days. Probably the FSF has only outdated versions of idealism, running on old hardware where each compile needs aeons. Maybe they should rewrite the system to run on some more popular platform.
  
  I have never got Hurd to work
  
  Probably you had an incompatible version of idealism. Actually idealism suffered from many different versions, having differences ranging from subtle to large. That's probably a reason why this platform finally got unpopular.
  
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Re:Hurd by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 08:29 · Score: 3, Funny

I prefere Flock myself
Linus on what stuff? by WormholeFiend · 2004-10-25 08:37 · Score: 3, Funny

The article doesnt even mention the devices that run Linus... what a let-down.

I, for one, would have welcome our new Linus-run overlord stuff.
^_^
Re:WARNING, PARENT'S SIG LINK IS RANDOM GOATSE RED by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 08:38 · Score: 0, Funny

Do you often click on signature links several times in a row, or was this one special to you somehow?
"Infrastructure" by HRbnjR · 2004-10-25 08:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I work from home, and OSDL provides some infrastructure that allows me to get my work done without having to worry about things.

Heh, "provides some infrastructure" ??

Such a sweet deal would normally make one wonder...

Richard Chesler : Get the f**k out of here, you're fired!

Narrator : I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant, and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know. I don't even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.
1. Re:"Infrastructure" by Dielectric · 2004-10-25 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The first rule of OSDL is that you don't talk about OSDL.
Re:Hurd by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 08:50 · Score: 4, Funny

A few months ago the debian popularity contest reported two users , but now they are back to zero :)
Re:Bah! by theendlessnow · 2004-10-25 09:08 · Score: 5, Funny

HURD! Uggg... Linux is bad enough, get a real OS, like FreeBSD for server's, otherwise its back to Windows for a desktop :) Let the OS wars begin!

Maybe there is a war, but you can't kill something that's already dead. Or haven't you hurd?
Anyone else hate... by palndron · 2004-10-25 09:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Articles that take more time to load than to read?

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Re:Linus isn't really one to talk. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 09:20 · Score: 1, Funny

Nonetheless, the hardware support of even the latest Linux distributions is inferior to that of Windows or even Mac OS X, and it's difficult to see how this is going to change when manufacturers continue to make their drivers closed-source and binary so that they only work with one kernel version, one distro, one libc.
You are right. It seems the Linux community is not at all concerned with operation on different hardware. When will Linux finally learn from OS leaders such as Microsoft and only work with one architecture. For goodness sake, it is not enough to work on only Alpha, ARM,HP PA-RISC, Intel x86, Intel IA-64, Motorola 680x0, MIPS, MIPS (DEC), PowerPC,IBM S/390, SPARC. Microsoft obviously has this (abbreviated) list beat with their full compatability with (only) x86 machines. Hell, OS X is super-compatible, provided you only chose hardware that is OS X compatible!
There's a proliferation of different versions, all incompatible, making ease-of-use impossible to attain.
Again, you illuminate this subject with such truthful clarity. Microsoft obviously allows us to install OS X applications on top of it, so why can't Linux?
Re:FSF doesn't rush anything, so chill. :) by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 09:21 · Score: 1, Funny

Yes.

And what the impatient kids today haven't learned is that Hari Seldon predicted that HURD would take 30,000 years to complete. So he took steps and built the GNU Foundation at the edge of the galaxy in order to ensure that the hurd could be finished in a much easier-to-swallow 1,000 year period. :P
Linus's just this guy, you know... by advocate_one · 2004-10-25 09:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Gag Halfrunt...

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Linus on All Sorts of Stuff by roman_mir · 2004-10-25 09:35 · Score: 2, Funny

Linus on All Sorts of Stuff - what a useless article. They don't even ask where he gets his stuff, what stuff he likes most, how he mixes his stuff. What a waste of perfectly good white html space.

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1. Re:Linus on All Sorts of Stuff by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 10:27 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  From the SCO people? How else would he know what they are taking?
Hmm by caluml · 2004-10-25 09:46 · Score: 2, Funny

There are currently, 4221 guest(s) and 0 member(s) that are online.

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My opinion by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 10:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Its great. I'm only running it because its the first platform that Duke Nukem Forever will run on.
Re:About to be /.'ed by nomadic · 2004-10-25 11:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Pls note that noone else is bothering to make real microkernel systems today

Tell that to QNX.
Re:Hurd by vsprintf · 2004-10-25 11:36 · Score: 2, Funny

One can argue that this is because all the developers flocked around Linus ( I think Stallman has made this argument from time to time ) but given that world+dog has given up on the whole microkernel thing, it's more likely that the hurd just sucks.

Natural selection at the kernel level.
GIMP by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-25 12:56 · Score: 1, Funny

The worst still is The GIMP. I mean, it has "CRIPPLED" right in its name!
Flumotion? by stor · 2004-10-25 16:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Well you'll be happy to hear that Fluendo have just released their new streaming server "Flumotion" that streams ogg vorbis.

*achoo!*

Cheers
Stor

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