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Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question
samzenpus writes: Linus Torvalds, the man behind the development of the Linux kernel, needs no introduction to Slashdot readers. Recently, we talked about his opinion on C++, and he talked about the future of Linux when he's gone. It's been a while since we sat down with Linus to ask him questions, so he's agreed to do it again and answer any you may have. Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please keep them to one per post.
Do you think Lennart Poettering is a malicious egotistical asshole, or just a misguided fool who starts things but never finishes them?
Why have you been so passive and uncaring about the obvious Trojan Horse of systemd? No concern about the increasing domination by one company (Red Hat)? Seriously?
Or when are you gonna make my laptop's WiFi card work?
As soon as two things happen... 1. the vendor releases enough information on the card to make it possible to write a driver for it... AND 2. Somebody who knows how, writes the driver and submits it so we can incorporate it.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Did your "fuck you" opinion on Nvidia changed lately? (and why)
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Maybe, but when you have something that prevents you from properly debugging said kernel, it may be a problem:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s...
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
What are your thoughts on why it is that Linux doesn't have a higher adoption rate?
You might want to limit that question to some subset like just "desktops". afaik, Linux still has the highest install base of any operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's the user's fault of course. OSS is such a joy with such happy helpful people.