Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux

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."

Comments

Is Linus too much of a nerd?

[HerculesMO]

I am thinking that his love for writing low level code is something of a failure of what will allow Linux to come into the mainstream.

And that is, getting the GUI perfected, fixing software distribution (standardize it, so no RPM or whatever... just a single package)... Click N' Run seems to be going this route.

I feel Linux can make some serious inroads on the desktop, but it has to be presented as a unified system. When you tell your friends you run Ubuntu (or whatever), then they are like "What's that?" There's no unity... if you run Gentoo, RedHat, Ubuntu... it's not "just" Linux, because even within Linux you have fanboys for different distros.

Anyway.. just throwing it out there. I'm still a Linux neophyte compared to most here, but I enjoy learning about it. I don't think there is a centralized focus for the future of Linux, other than through Linus who it seems to me, is far too geeky to realize what it takes to bring Linux into the mainstream.

Intel lover

[kisrael]

"The good news is that a lot of hw manufacturers are actually doing the right thing. Intel in particular has improved wrt open source a lot, and for that reason I tend to suggest that when buying a machine, just make sure that you buy one with Intel graphics and wireless. That takes care of the two biggest annoyances right there."

Hmmm.