Torvalds Switches to a Mac

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 ;)

Comments

That's putting your money where your mouth is!

[ThePlague]

I applaud you, Mr. Torvalds, for showing such faith and belief in your Linux product. Kudos to you, sir! An inspiration for the rest of us!

Re:Yes,

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes he does you stupid faggot. RTFA

Nothing wrong with mac hardware

[codepunk]

Hell if somebody gave me one I would use it also. Most of the mac hardware is very nicely built. I ran OSX on a older mac and that is about a useless as
a drink coaster. You load a version of linux and you get every software package and tool you could ever want. You load osx and you get nothing but a outdated version of IE or a hacked up version of the kde browser, hell not even a compiler.

this place is ridiculous

[Anonymous Coward]

I know comments about how pathetic this place is are a dime a dozen, but I can't help myself...

First of all, this has been known for quite a while now. I don't make an effort to keep track of everything Linus does, and I don't check Slashdot 20 times a day, but I knew Linus was running a PowerPC.

Second, the summary clearly states "he is running Linux on it". And yet, as of now, the large majority of posters here are clearly under the impression that he is running Mac OS X. What does it say about Slashdot that the majority of posters don't even read the two-sentence summary, let alone the actual article, before thinking they have something worth saying about the topic?

It is truly amazing how much utter crap I read here.

In fact: LINUS RUNS LINUX ON APPLE

[charlie_vernacular]

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.

Re:He is using linux on a dual g5

[kakos]

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

You've gone too far there, buddy

[harris s newman]

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.

Re:Just hardware, no apple OS.

[Anonymous Coward]

What a different perspective such as "turn him into a raging Apple fag"? Seriously... Apple users are almost as bad as Gentoo zealots. If that's "perspective" then I'm quite happy being normal.

Re:I'm disappointed in this

[KarmaMB84]

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

Re:Just hardware, no apple OS.

[fr0dicus]

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.