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Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the even-keel dept.

SlinkySausage writes "Linus Torvalds has laid out his plans for the future of Linux, including the 3.0 kernel [there probably won't be one], problems with the Linux release cycles and which distro he personally runs on his home PC. '"Compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me,' Torvalds says."

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  1. Not a Gentoo user by jshriverWVU · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me,'

    guessing he's not a gentoo user :)

    1. Re:Not a Gentoo user by dr_strang · · Score: 3, Funny

      Gentoo is like going to a restaurant, ordering your dinner, and having the chef take you back into the kitchen and put you to work making your own meal. I like an OS with a little LESS configurability than Gentoo. Some like it though.

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    2. Re:Not a Gentoo user by Tweekster · · Score: 5, Funny

      There are no gentoo USERS. they never get to actually use the system

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    3. Re:Not a Gentoo user by Methlin · · Score: 1, Funny

      Maybe a pizza place where you make your own pie? They give you the dough, the sauce, the cheese...you pound it, slap it, you flip it up into the air...you put your toppings on and you slide it into the oven!

    4. Re:Not a Gentoo user by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can use it plenty. I use all my time recompiling the latest packages and keeping up with the latest config file changes ;)

      Oh, you mean you don't think administration=using...hmm...what else is there?

    5. Re:Not a Gentoo user by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 2, Funny

      You should just blame the UBB developers. Their decision to replace perfectly good HTML tags with nearly identical ones is unforgiveable.

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    6. Re:Not a Gentoo user by einhverfr · · Score: 3, Funny

      > (1) add "CPUTYPE=[whatever-my-cpu-is-here]" to my make.conf file

      The problem is that most of the people don't know what their CPUTYPE is. I don't know it either and I have actually build the pc from parts on my own. Is it really impossible to autodetect the CPUTYPE? CPUTYPE="Compaq Presario"

      Why doesnt this work? What do you mean look at /proc/cpuinfo?

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  2. No 3.0 ? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on!

    3.0 is a perfect excuse to break everything and allow your imagination to run riot. That's the fun bit!

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    1. Re:No 3.0 ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      3.0 is a perfect excuse to break everything

      I thought that was 2.6.8?

    2. Re:No 3.0 ? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 3, Funny

      Everyone knows that its not real, mature, stable software until its been named version 3.0. It worked for Windows didn't it?

    3. Re:No 3.0 ? by cp.tar · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'll wait for Linux 3.11 for Workgroups in that case, thank you oh so very much.

      Though I guess this gives us the approximate timeline for the 3.0 version - because we know that Linux 95 must soon follow.
      89 more years to go, 89 years...

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  3. Re:Is Linus too much of a nerd? by Blimey85 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I totally agree. If everyone would just switch to Ubuntu, the few left that aren't already running it that is, we would have one true distro to rule them all!

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  4. Re:The future of linux by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny

    The development of something like a kernel NEEDS a dictator Perhaps it doesn't need to be quite so extreme.
    Instead of DICTATOR, how about just a Colonel?
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  5. Re:Debian/Ubuntu by l4m3z0r · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know what you should do, you should email Linus and discuss the finer points of why he should use the same distro as you to validate your own choice.

  6. Straight from the penguin's mouth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Windows is dying.

    There fixed it for you.

  7. Cox v Morton by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All right, so they'll duel first.

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    1. Re:Cox v Morton by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Still, it's quite amazing how far we've come in the last 400 years. In the 17th Century, Kernel Development Manager was a hereditary title.

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  8. Re:The future of linux by Tim+Browse · · Score: 4, Funny

    The development of something like a kernel NEEDS a dictator I think Theo de Raadt is already busy on something else.
  9. Okay, okay... by msimm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone in IT will tell you that to upgrade simply for the sake of upgrading is stupid, and will lead to a multitude of problems.

    Enough with the Vista bashing, we're sorry.
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  10. Microkernel [or How to get Flamed in Slashdot] by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even advancements in multi-core technology would not require a 3.x series kernel (unless I'm mistaken in my belief that the 2.6.x series supports multi-core CPU's), simply because once you cam make a dual-core CPU functional with the kernel, expanding that functionality to 4, 8, or even 64 cores is simply an expanding of the current code. And even if the current kernel does not support multi-core CPU's, that would be more of a 2.8.x series, rather than an entirely new kernel version

    I guess that a 3.0 version would be a suitable "label" to a conversion of the Linux kernel into a Microkernel architecture, I am not saying that it is going to be done, but I think that with the development of multicore technology and the overall new technology a microkernel architecture seems plausible.

    In any case, I assume that just a modification of such size would make the version major worth of being changed.

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  11. Ew... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From TFA:

    "LT: I spend a lot of time at the computer. But I'm writing this one-handed, because our puppy is sitting in my lap right now."

    That's sick! You sick, sick, SICKO!

  12. Colonel Sanders? KFP Linux Distribution! by Dareth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our delcious "kentucky fried penguin" overlords!

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  13. Re:Is Linus too much of a nerd? by Gazzonyx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I totally agree. If everyone would just switch to Ubuntu, the few left that aren't already running it that is, we would have one true distro to rule them all! You can pry my Slackware install DVD from my cold, dead, fingers as I use my body as a human shield to keep you away from my server! I'll fight you and Ubuntu, with my outfit of fellow slackers, from the hills if I must!
    Unless, of course, Ubuntu gets open source video drivers...
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  14. PffT by drix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux is soooo Y2K. I run RedHat now.

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  15. Re:I want collapsable threads! by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    # USE="collapsable" CFLAGS="--omg-optimize" emerge threads

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