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Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H Talk About Linux Community, Dealing with Hardware Bugs, Chromebooks Gaining Traction, Microsoft, Companies Gleaning Data and More (www.tfir.io)
Swapnil Bhartiya, who runs the blog TFIR, had a chance to interview Linus Torvalds at Open Source Summit in the second half of August this year. (Some context: The interview, which was published this week, took place before Mr. Torvalds said he needs to take a step back to reflect on how he has dealt with the community over the years. Since then, we have learned that Mr. Torvalds is returning to his position.) In the wide-ranging interview, Mr. Torvalds has touched a wide-range of subjects, including formulating workarounds for the problematic hardware bugs (Meltdown, Spectre), and Chromebooks gaining traction (though it is still not a machine that he could use for his work yet). He also talked about companies gleaning a lot of data about their users, regulations, (a tad bit of politics), Linux community.
Greg Kroah-Hartman (aka Greg K-H) joined Mr. Bhartiya and Mr. Torvalds for the second half of the interview. On Sunday, Mr. Bhartiya published an additional interview of Mr. Kroah-Hartman.
Greg Kroah-Hartman (aka Greg K-H) joined Mr. Bhartiya and Mr. Torvalds for the second half of the interview. On Sunday, Mr. Bhartiya published an additional interview of Mr. Kroah-Hartman.
Please don't post a 45 minute video without a transcript, or at least time indexes for the major topics. There are interesting subjects in this interview, but I don't want to dig through a huge video to find them...
Linus is the voice of technology. He climbed the mountain top and saw the promised land. He led the world into the land of milk and honey. He is our the high priest of technology. Imagine how awesome it is to wake up everyday, look in the mirror and say "Hey y'all! I'm Linus! That's me lookin' back at cha!" Nothing is too good for Linus; just imagine a world without Torvalds, and being ruled by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Dear Lord, I shudder in my tracks at the thought!
I agree. The reason I get all my news via the Internet, and not television, is that the task takes just a tenth the time by reading.
I just get my news through memes. It is faster and likely more truthful.
Why wouldn't the only relevant issue be Linux's new Code of Conduct (C.u.C.)?
Most of it was politics.. "blowing up", media, secrecy, privacy, mailing lists, diversity...etc. Very little discussion about actual technology. What a waste of an interview.
Free Software world hero Linus Torvalds was forced to resign from the Linux kernel project by blackmail. He fell for a honeytrap and was threatened with a #MeToo purge if he didn't resign. It's a corporate power grab, using "Social Just-Us" as a tool.