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Linus Torvalds Reads Your Mean Tweets

Posted by timothy on from the humor-trumps-malice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the spirit of Jimmy Kimmel's popular Mean Tweets series and in a rare video appearance, Linus Torvalds takes to task a few 'tweeters' who have called him out. Never one to back down, Linus reads the tweets and shares his comments." Sadly, this is just a few -- with weekly updates, Linus could charge a subscription to fund unlimited diving trips.

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  1. Terrifyingly Lame by Anrego · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was painfully tame. Like, PBS levels of tame.

    Linux has provided some epic rants... this is just pathetic.

    1. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Ynot_82 · · Score: 2

      Linux has provided some epic rants

      Yes, but I don't think a rant about a device driver setup routine returing -EBUSY as opposed to -EINVAL would appeal to the general public.

    2. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      A Theo de Raadt episode would be a lot more fun.

      But seriously, I miss the Friday Star Wars and/or evolution stories.

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    3. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by Pinhedd · · Score: 2

      Linus Torvalds vs Theo de Raadt would make for a pretty sweet rap battle

    4. Re:Terrifyingly Lame by citizenr · · Score: 5, Funny

      actually its GNU/Linus

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      Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
  2. Note to self: by mythosaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note to self: Send Linus some mean tweets.

    1. Re:Note to self: by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about "I'm the president of the Andrew Tanenbaum Fan Club, and we wondered why you're such an asswiped for choosing a monolithic kernel."

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      The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
    2. Re:Note to self: by sjames · · Score: 2

      Because a tribe of cave people looking in awe at a pile of pebbles wouldn't have been very dramatic?!? :-)

    3. Re: Note to self: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      asswiped was replaced by the newer asshatd, which is lighter and faster for Ruby-based ass-hattery.

  3. Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by MindPrison · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Epic comment by mr. Torvalds.

    Personally I think he handled those tweets with grace and excellence, however - I do miss his "F*CK YOU NVIDIA" attitude sometimes, keeping it real, sticking it to the man and all that jazz.

    Here's a fun fact, I met Mr. Torvalds in a parking lot of Astoria (Oregon, US)...he was just leaving Bridgewater Bistro with (his wife?!), albeit he has never seen me before, he obviously doesn't like fanboys too much as he grabbed his (wife?!) hand and ran like mad towards his car when I tried to say HI! ... Hm...those Hollywood stars, what can I say?!

    Oh wait...

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    1. Re:Hehe...we've got STEAM on Linux now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      it was the systemd bumper sticker...

  4. Re:Wait, it's pronounced Leenus? by by+(1706743) · · Score: 2

    ...and if you want to hear him state his full name and how he pronounces Linux: ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...