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Torvalds Switches to a Mac

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he's-just-copying-me dept.

renai42 writes "Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore" and got the machine for free." And yes, he is running Linux on it ;)

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  1. In fact: LINUS RUNS LINUX ON APPLE by charlie_vernacular · · Score: 1, Troll

    Macintosh is the operating system, Apple is the company. So an Apple Macintosh is an Apple computer running the Macintosh operating system.

    Comments on ZDNet rightly point out that saying "Torvalds runs Mac" is simply a cheap ploy to draw hits, besides being inaccurate.

  2. Re:He is using linux on a dual g5 by kakos · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the choice of running a full featured OS with a highly polished GUI or Linux, I think I'd go with the former.

  3. You've gone too far there, buddy by harris+s+newman · · Score: 0, Troll

    The difference between a PC and a Mac is great. The Mac is a much better platform. The Intel design is 30+ years old and full of sludge. Why anyone would sell a superior product for a inferior one, and then run the same software on it (the pc) boggles my mind.

  4. Re:I'm disappointed in this by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's probably secretly using OS X, MSN Messenger for Mac and Outlook 2004 for Mac....

  5. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by fr0dicus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Finger in the air benchmarks, excellent. The only advantage Linux has over any of those other operating systems besides Darwin is price, and straightline performance on 2 CPU machines, or in embarassingly parallel grid apps. Here in the real world, it's a cruddy desktop for the end user (yes, I am talking about the kernel, see binary driver support etc., don't get me started on the Window Managers), bad scaling OS for 6+ CPU server use, poorly supported by serious workstation software producers, and horribly immature in high availability clustering.