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Torvalds on Opening Solaris

Posted by michael on from the writing-on-the-wall dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a link to this interview with Linus Torvalds, where the questions center on Sun's movement toward the open source world (and Linus' dismissive view of the threat posed by Solaris), as well as a few questions about 2.7 and the future of Linux.

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  1. About Linux Torvalds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    For anyone who doesn't know: Linus was the creator of Slackware, the first Linux. Also, a story was posted a while back, about the undiagnosed deadly virus he has, which he had kept quite. Any news on his health? the interview doesn't mention it.

    1. Re:About Linux Torvalds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      a story was posted a while back, about the undiagnosed deadly virus he has, which he had kept quite

      Perhaps he has kept quiet because until now it's been common knowledge that only Windows has viruses.

  2. Linus loves the cock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    mmmmmmmmm

    1. Re:Linus loves the cock by eno2001 · · Score: -1, Troll

      Sounds more like YOU love the cock. I mean, after all, he's not the one making "mmmmmm" sounds, you are.

      (I know I missed an In Soviet Russia opportunity in there somewhere) ;P

      --
      -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  3. Hoist by his own petard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I particularly like these Linus quotes from the article:

    "I really can't plan my way out of a cardboard box."

    "People who know Solaris better than I do will tell me and other people about the great things they offer. To try to figure it out on my own would be a waste of time."

    "The less I have to do with customers, the better"

    Obviously this is just the sort of visionary leader you want to bet the long-term future of your business on, right?

  4. Re:Isolating your development... by IHateSlashDot · · Score: 0, Troll
    You are 100% correect. Linus will not look at Solaris because he knows that Linux cannot compete with it.

    If Linus were not such an arrogent retard he would have told the truth...

    "Of course I'm going to look at Solaris. It's the most stable, scalable, robust version of Unix out there. And to top it off it actually works in a production environment. Linux is still 5-10 years away from that level."

  5. Explains? by wombatmobile · · Score: 0, Troll

    You don't address the point that Newton thought and acted as a bitch.

    Rather, you use bold type followed by "but I think" followed by any random string.

    And then your sig is a bitches sig.