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Linus speaks at Comdex
pq writes "CNET, via The NYTimes has
this coverage of Linus and his remarks at Comdex. iMacs, Transmeta, Open Source, the 2.4 kernel, Mindcraft, Mozilla, Linux Everywhere(tm) - this has it all.
" Also following the keynote, Transmeta's webpage announced
Crusoe (we mentioned that
last night).
But one has to raise the question: Is this a good thing? While I personally think it was implied that Linux is doing well not only on the benchmarks, but in general also - one doesn't have to interpret it that way.
What if it meant: "Linux is doing extremely well on those kind of benchmarks and nothing else."? I realize that would be a rather Microsoft-esque thing to do, of course. Most people know that benchmarks are bogus anyway, but the Pointy-haired bosses demand the systems that the benchmarks say are good.
While this almost certainly didn't happen in this case, what if it had? What if the lure of looking good in the eye of the public and getting linux into more places ended up creating a non-optimal Linux, just to impress people?
Publicity like this is not always a good thing.
-Denor
In case anyone wants to view his keynote speech, it can be found at PC Week's website under the Monday tab. Good speech IMHO.
This is a typical response from a slashdotter:
Someone makes a comment that MIGHT be construed to be Anti-Linux and the slashdotter points out how Microsoft does the same thing!
What does this have to do with Microsoft????????? He is talking about LINUX!
Waste your moderation points.
A niche in the server arena is a pretty darn big niche.
I'm not against Linux as a desktop OS (or, more appropriately, a workstation OS). The problem I have is that "desktopping" an OS implies sacrificing functionality for ease-of-use. I fear this.
The main reason Linux works for me as a workstation is because it also works as a server. It greatly speeds up development when I'm able to develop and test on the same machine.
I am concerned about this trend towards "one OS does it all". I think this is a bad thing -- you end up with a lot of rarely-used baggage. To a certain extent, the "desktop" paradigm and the "server" paradigm may be mutually exclusive. Considering all of the NT criticism on slashdot, one would think there would be less desire to mimic Microsoft's desire to do everything.
KDE, GNOME, and the other GUI-oriented projects have done a lot to flatten the learning curve for Linux. I'm grateful for anything that lets me just get stuff done without digging through HOWTOs trying to figure out how to get stuff done.
But there is still room for improvement in the server niche. This is an area where Linux has started to prove itself, and I would hate to see the momentum lost here because people decided to start an open-source home-checkbook project instead of a solid application server.
(Self-contradiction ->) But, then again, Linux developers have done fine scratching their own itches so far....
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.
its a "MOBILE" processor. It won't be competing with intel..
wrong. intel makes mobile processors too.
The Transmeta processor is intel-compatible so it will run Windows and Linux kernels unmodified.
It's funny, you know it. Everyone laugh with me now HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The subplot for guaranteeing the $tream are what MSFT, and most commercial software have perfected - proprietary protocols. MSFT has extended Windows to kill Netscape, Lotus, Java, Apple Quicktime, Intel NSP, and even has it sights on Real Audio because these programs provide an open and in many cases cross platform API, not controlled by MSFT.
I'm not on Wine, but my guess is 2/3 of the Win32 API is redundant extension, just to lock out compatibility. (What happened to Borland and OWL)
Microsoft's primary weapons are proprietary extensions to standards. They Ship NT servers with DCOM, ASP, enhanced TCP/IP, MSFT Java, Active X, and other proprietary extensions to LOCK web viewers into IE(x) on Win(x).
Open Source then risks legality issues to reverse engineer the extensions or must secede the market to MSFT.
Number one source for MSFT's legal action will be to sue the Corp that uses the reverse engineered product.
Give them an inch, they'll take a mile
Why do the people of the linux community INSIST on forcing programmers to give their program and source away for free. I mean, hearing this at first, it sounds like a good idea.But when you get right down to it, it screams COMMUNISM. I, as a programmer, would like the right to distribute and sell my product to the world. Don't get me wrong, Linux is a great OS, but the direction it's going is turning me toward more promising operating systems such as BEOS. I hate to say it, but Micro$oft's OS is a lot better than any *nix flavor on the market today. Look at X-windows for example: Its clunky, non-stadardized, and for the most part looks like shit (no-matter what WM is used!!!!). Its based on technology that was invented over a decade ago. If windows95/98/NT was such a shitty OS, WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING IT?????? Why doesn't the linux community take a hint: make it easier for the end-user. Without this, linux will never become popular as the OS of Mr. GaTeS.
Creating programs for public domain can be fun and enjoyable, but not profitable. Money is what is needed in this world whether we like it or not.
money != EVIL!;
software monopoly == EVIL;
(RiMJobZ A' Plenty)
Upon what do you base your hypothesis that this involves reconfigurable circuitry? Not on
given that one could do that with a CPU with a fixed instruction set and a pile of software to do binary-to-binary translation of instructions from various instruction sets to the native instruction set...
...along the lines of what the Transmeta patents mentioned by various Slashdot articles have described.
I suspect that, if it's not already possible to have the kernel find a driver module given only, say a PCI vendor/device ID for the device (I seem to remember, possibly in a Kernel Traffic summary, discussion of doing something along those lines for USB), it could be done, so I doubt this is inherent to Linux.
Is that kernel-mode code? Or is it something that could be implemented in userland atop the Linux kernel and API libraries (or atop other UNIX-flavored OSes kernel and API libraries)? I have the impression that the print subsystem largely lives in userland in Windows NT (I'm not sure there's a strict distinction between userland and kernel code in Windows OT).
I.e.,
Linux (and other OSes to which source is made widely available) may allow you to build kernels more finely tailored to particular hardware than other OSes (although I don't know what you get with, say, Embedded NT), but that doesn't mean that they're necessarily better suited for embedded use than general-purpose desktop use - I've seen nothing to indicate that it's intrinsically impossible to build an OS that can both be built for a specific hardware configuration and be built as a more "generic" OS with the ability to load arbitrary drivers, or, if it is possible, that the resulting OS would necessarily suffer from being so built.
Transmeta are building a processor. For it to have any chance in the marketplace, obviously it needs an OS and Linux is a sensible choice. It seems to port well to platforms other than x86 (LinuxPPC, Alpha and others). It's stable, which is vital for embedded stuff, and it's easy to downscale.
However, processor manufacturers also need to ship compilers that are optimized for their chips. Intel do this very successfully. Their code profiler (VTune) also helps to generate code that takes advantage of every bit of the hardware. Because of these tools, Intel have a significant edge in benchmarks against other manufacturers who don't produce compilers.
Anyone know if Transmeta have been hiring compiler writers? Can we expect a set of Crusoe optimizations in egcs?
So here is my theory on Crusoe:
That alien technology they are using is based on Field Gate Programmable Arrays.
They are building a chip that can reconfigure its circuitry for any instruction set, or any function in realtime. You want proof? straight from Linux, the Crusoe will be a "smart CPU, the first microprocessor built with software". My mind is still reeling with implications of meta-software, software that writes itself. Its not a chip they are building but a path straight to the mind of god!!
Let's us know your secret. Make it open source. This way all of us slashdotters can equally have the nothingness of life you seem to be enjoying.
Yes, I'd be happy and gay, too. Why aren't you?
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"Oh, bother," said Pooh, as he hid Piglet's mangled corpse.
My kids, 9 & 10, love to use KDE & GNOME. They don't seem to think it's difficult to use. Mind you I set it up and use it so I'm the one who had to deal with the HOW-TOs and man pages.
If you're the user and not the system administrator KDE & GNOME aren't that bad
Many have to rely on many others, so there must be some time frame lest to make any planning impossible.
It is not just about the OS -- people are using it for something.
Thankfully enough developers, free software or not, mostly feel some responsibility for what they are doing and that is what makes things work. We care, even some large cooperations' management at times does not like people caring about their work, but this is a different subject.
Just post it again tomorrow, and call it a running gag ;-)
Was anyone else disappointed by his address?
It seemed to be to be nothing more than a bunch of open-source flag-waving and "gee isn't Linux great!" I mean this is probably *the* biggest event in the computing world and 'We've got credit cards?'
I (out of curiosity) watched BG's speech just before I tuned into Linus. I couldn't help but think "Now, that's what we're going to have to do. *Show* what Linux is capable of." Wild Bill up there yanking a server out of the rack and watching the fail-over right there, while garnering yawns from most of you (including myself) probably got more PHB's signed on to W2K than Linus & Maddog's lovefest.
Especially at events such as this. I would've expected a little bit of detail into the advances the 2.4 kernel will bring. A little about supporting the next gen. processors. Maybe a few real-world examples of where Linux is out-doing or replacing NT.... This speech would've been great at say a LUG meeting or a university appearance...but not at a world gathering of *IT business* types.
Instead we get 20 minutes of 'open source is good.' And then 20 minutes of questions like 'How many stuffed penguins do you have.'
Err, um. OK.
World domination? Not if we're ill-prepared to put our 'money where our mouth is.'
And as far as the news from Transmeta? What news? We know no more now than we did before.
--sitting here with wrinkled brow--
Blech. Signatures.
No! But it will run code for all OS flavors you can muster.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
>It gets you sort of hot and defensive when you hear people being >referred to as "Linux zealots" doesn't it? Makes you all angry, and >ready to strike off on a holy war campaign, eh? Nope, you're not a >Linux zealot. No-siree.
You're right it doesn't make one a Linux zealot, since this dislike of Microsoft Windows and it's users you are bitching about goes back to the Unix,MSDOS,Amiga,ST,Mac,Atari-8 bit and C64 users. Learn something about the history involved before shooting off your mouth. Non-Windows people historically have truely disliked Microsoft Windows from Day 1.
>However, Linus has long since handed off much of >his responsiblity vis-a-vis the kernel to Alan >Cox and others.
However, doesn't Linus have to sign off on some of the major peices that get into the kernel, and also sign off on when a new Kernel level (e.g. 2.2 to 2.4) is ready to be announced?
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Linus said one sentence about 3dfx opening its source and specs. Does anyone know anything else about that?
As I Can see, You are probably not a programmer
Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans
until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate
what Crusoe processors can do.
Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see.
Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications.
Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted
to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site
in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all
of the real details as soon as they are available.
I ve got my birthday on 19th of january! :)
Does anyone know anything about a secret message in the TRANSMETA website? Maybe someone should psot it here if they find it...
Mattel still retaliates against injured geek!
I usually don't believe in this whole "Linux is God" aspect that some members of the Linux community follow, but he does have some pretty good things to say usually (apparently he's a pretty bright kid =) ). So...
Ok boyos. here is what, in my opinion, is the best part of the article:
Torvalds steadfastly maintains the challenge and excitement
of producing a operating system--not competition with
Microsoft--is what motivates Linux developers. But he
couldn't resist a few jabs at the software giant.
...
"People see Linux as anti-Microsoft. In the press it looks that
way," Torvalds said. "But to me and all the developers I
know, it's not me vs. Microsoft." It's a matter of a fun
programming project, he said.
There it is in black and white. Some of the most hardcore Linux developers do it becuase they love it. It's a challenge. A problem to be solved. It's fun. The thrill of the chase if you will. And a little bit of pride. It's not the great apocalyptic david and goliath battle some make it out to be. It's about making the best system that they can.
Is competition necessary? Sure. If nothing else it shows places where improvement is needed. Case in point:
"While I was upset about Mindcraft for awhile, I took it as a
more positive thing after I got past the personal injury to my
pride," Torvalds said. "We just delved into it and fixed it.
We took this benchmark as a way of saying, 'Yes, Linux is
not the best at everything.' We fixed the area, and as a
result, Linux is doing extremely well on those kind of
benchmarks."
"You want to kiss the sky? Better learn how to kneel." - U2
"It was like trying to herd cats..." - Robert A. Heinlein
Sig:
Barbeque is a noun. Not a verb.
I remember a while back, when asked "Do you care if Linux is on everyone's desktop". Linus replied "No, I don't. It will always be there for me, and thats all that matters". I use to think the same too. But it now seems that Linus (and myself) are starting to care otherwise. He now shows interest (and disappointment) in getting Linux to the average user. That is where the average person sees as a computer. Just because it's in your cell phone doesn't make you think you are using it.
I was hoping the article would talk more about the Mozilla project instead of a one liner.
Peoples views on Linux vs MS are far and between. I feel too that Linux should work with MS and vise versa. But others believe that it should just be a replacement. If MS would just change their attitude from being so corporate heavy to a little more "lets work together for the common good", then I might start liking them again.
The problem with companies going to Open Source is that they think its the end all to everything. You can not controll the outcome of Open Source. It controls itself. Its like the Internet and technology. You can control a little, but it will eventually escape on its own. It may help you if you let it work on its own, but it may hurt you if you control it. I don't like the corporate "dead lines". When its done, its done. You just try to get it to work the best you can. Kernel release 2.4 comes out when its done, thats all I care about. If you need something from it, that's what 2.3 is for. Open Source is like nature described by Malcom in Jurasic Park. It will always break free.
Steven Rostedt
Steven Rostedt
-- Nevermind
I usually don't believe in this whole "Linux is God" aspect that some members of the Linux community follow, but he does have some pretty good things to say
I get tired of this characterization of the Linux community, or even some of its members. It really doesn't have much basis in reality, and can generally be attributed to those who are opposed to the success of Linux for whatever reason. Indeed, it is a kind of personal FUD, aimed at the users and advocates of Linux more than anything else. While some may jokingly say something to the effect of "Linus is God", even the most ardent Linux advocate has his or her toung firmly in cheek.
There is a great deal of respect, gratitude, and good will toward Linus for what he has done and the contributions he has made and yes, even some hero worship. Compared to the adulations others (such as what Michael Jordan or Bill Gates get from their followings, for example), the adulations Linus Torvalds has gotten are generally quite moderate.
Is competition necessary? Sure. If nothing else it shows places where improvement is needed.
Absolutely. We know this, the DOJ knows this, and the Judge knows this. Others appear not to grasp this concept quite as well.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
Interestingly enough, Linus seemed more focused on the issue of making Linux a better server than a better desktop OS. For all of those "Linux is the Ultimate OS" zealots out there, this seems like a bit of a sleight. Could Linux be headed toward a niche market?
What about GNOME and KDE? These are great desktops, but unfortunately, the complexity of the Linux kernel seeps through and reduces their viability for the non-technical user. If Linus responds more favorably to criticisms of Linux's server performance than to criticisms of usability, Linux will probably fill a niche in the server arena and PC users will still be stuck with Windows....
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I think the spiral thingie above "crusoe" in the crusoe logo looks very similar to the debian "swirl" logo.
:-)
Perhaps a chance to sue some money out of corporate america.
IDG
matt
- Intel bought a DSP company
- Transmeta is focusing on just the same topic
- Redhat gets together with Cygnus (eCos!)
- Microsoft & WinCE doesn't seam to be the winning team
Fun is in the air!When Linus graduated, he was asked why he didn't take a job at RedHat devoting his full time to writing the kernel. His response was that he didn't want to be swayed by his employer's interests into decisions that would harm the kernel's functionality. He joined Transmeta to keep his employment completely seperate from his Linux hobby.
Well what he's doing today is very close to what he wanted to avoid. Transmeta developes an embedded processor. Every time he speeks he chants about getting Linux into embedded systems and today he actually said Linux is more practical for embedded systems than a desktop. You have to wonder how much pressure he experiences working for an embedded systems company to divert his efforts from other kernel improvements to fitting the kernel into Transmeta's agenda.
No no no, you have it wrong,
There will not be a crusoe source arch branch, just a configuration branch in, "make config," that will read:
[ ] Use Crusoe Processor
|
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in x86 mode
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in ppc mode
|-[ ] Run Crusoe in sparc mode
:)
-AP
Anyone know where I can read a copy of this speech without having to pay RealNetworks to look at my hard drive?
... and there is no doubt, that one day he will be
where the eye of his telescope has already been
*COUGH!* Either Linus' times are "absolute", in which case there's not a kernel that's been "on schedule" in the history of Linux, OR Linus isn't promising anything but is giving a tentative guesstimate, in which case no Linux timetable exists.
Second, I'll believe Transmeta's release date when I see a "Crusoe" arch in the Linux kernel.
Uhhhhhhh.... Hooooooooooooooooold on a moment! This looks suspicious! A delay in 2.4, until about the same time Crusoe will be unleashed? And no hard freeze yet? Hmmmm. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
"I think so, Brain, but I've never seen a pink giraffe in a tutu."
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
But the Mindcraft fiasco didn't measure anything of importance. Do we really want kernel hackers wasting time "fixing" non-existant problems?
In embedded systems Linux can clean winCE's clock. Hardware manufactures do not need or want MS on their back ala Intel. Linux can gain rapidly in this space and that it can scale down will not hurt either. The OS on a cheap device is a large share of the cost, this will also make Linux a big player. The demand for Linux developement will go up as a result as will Linux mindshare. The PC will then have to speak Linux or at least maintain networking commodities. It may seem dull but with UNIX in general on the small end and UNIX at the high end Windows will just seem more and more in the way. If I develope a "light" version of software on a small device, will it be easier to rewrite a PC version for windows API or just add to Linux? Java is no answer for a resource starved device. It will help make Linux the standard. The army will do its job and the navy will do its thing, so the battle is on all fronts. Bottom line, embedded systems will help win the desktop as developers come to the UNIX camp and apps written on top of them do UNIX.
This week's editorial on Advogato has some more discussion of Linus's talk, from the specific viewpoint of free software developers.
Everyone is welcome to read, but Advogato limits posting to members of the free software development community. It's my hope that this will make Advogato a more useful resource for developers.
LILO boot: linux init=/usr/bin/emacs
People who work with Microsoft get burnt. It's funny that today's Slashdot should have a reference to Microsoft burning one of the first big companies Bill Gates burnt, IBM:
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/15/155237.sht ml
This kind of stuff can burn you too. Sure, I use their software, I've even programed a little, C/C++ (Watcom!). There are plenty of great Win32 applications, which one day will be broken that are fine to use. Programing is much the same. Everything but the simplest API call is subject to breakage, or planned obsolescence, or upgrading, or whatever and it don't work no mo. 95 broke 3.1 stuff, 98 stuff broke 95, W2k will break everything. More visible is the forced update of Office95, Office97, Office98, Office2k. Visual Basic is the ultimate evil. You can get things done, but you will have to do it again sooner or later. It was nice once but it's a dead end, and I don't recomend anyone bother. Microsoft breaks code, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Am I hateful? No, just practical. There is something better out there.
Use the source, learn something that you can keep for more than five years.
|-[]Run Crusoe in Robinson mode
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Looked like the Dreamcast swirl to me.
Can you believe the FUD mongering?
"On the down side, Linux's upgrade schedule--which never is etched in stone--has slipped a little in the last few months."
What is the author contrasting this with?
Oh, I know, it's that "etched in stone" NT 5 . . . I mean Windows 2000 (or is it 2001?) release date.
-Peter
An interesting thing I got out of his keynote, was the fact that the Linux Kernel will scale both UP and DOWN. . . Will other OS's do this? I guess I had never seen it from that point of view. Wouldn't you want to develop on your desktop, deploy to either clusters or handhelds? The fact that Linux will scale like this, is reason enough for me to develop for the OS. Personal note, when Linus mentioned Mozilla, I was the one who started the "smattering of applause" in the audience...
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Linus's most admirable attribute, which is also IMHO the reason he's so successful with Linux, is that when beat by his competitors, it doesn't cause him to hate them, but rather it causes him to work harder and make a better product.
IMNSHO many Linux zealots has a lot to learn from Linus... Linux is not about "we hate MS", but it's about "how we can make something better than MS, or anyone else for that matter, can". If Linux was merely about hating MS and trying to "take over" MS's market, it'd be no different from MS abusing its monopoly to squish out competitors. It was quite sad for me to read the posts about the Mindcraft benchmark results -- most of those posts show that the attitude of some people here seems to be the "I hate MS" attitude. If we hate MS more just because Linux lost to NT in the benchmarks, and we accuse Mindcraft of having staged the whole thing, etc., are we not the same as MS spreading FUD against its competitors? Rather, we should take the negative result as an indication that Linux has room for improvement, and we should use our energy to improve it, not waste our time by shouting "not fair".
mikre he sophia he tou Mikrosophou.
...but you might be right about this.
One point in contravention: What if Crusoe is not in fact an embedded processor that functions like others we've seen up to now?
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Death will come, and will have your eyes
-- Pavese
Someone got a transcript of this?
On upside.com...
A bit about his "good nature", etc... click here.
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Transmeta's Crusoe is for mobile applications right? When we think of mobile we usually think of portable right? What if Transmeta doesn't mean portable as in transportable (i.e. a laptop or palmtop) but portable as in "gcc has been ported to many different platforms"? "A whole new world of mobility" would then mean the processor itself is mobile as in not static. Mobile as in portable as in porting apps to itself on the fly. Would that then mean a Crusoe desktop is possible?
Just food for thought.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must say, "No mother! I do not want any more Jell-O!"
Check out the source on transmeta.com:
Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans
until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate
what Crusoe processors can do.
Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see.
Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications.
Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted
to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site
in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all
of the real details as soon as they are available.
Yep.
The big knife switch on the top of the chip's package has positions for all the popular architectures. We're calling it the first "High Level Confused Direction Architecture" (HLCDA) Chip (tm). It's pretty good at being any processor.
Next we'll spend some time figuring out why we made it.
Of course, if you view the whole computing world as a big arena where different architectures, and different approaches have to "beat" one another, like big stupid oafs in a wrestling ring (as a Minnesotan, I can say that Jesse Ventura comes to mind here...), you'll see the need for a "Battle of the Titans". It's good stuff; it fills an otherwise gaping void in your life to have something to cheer on.
Do "we" want kernel hackers.....
Where does this "we" come from? Are you the guy in charge? Here, my spitoon needs emptying, if so...
I'm really getting tired of all these claims that shooting holes in your detractor's bogus claims amounts to zealotry. When Mindcraft tested one very specific setup (static pages, multiple NICs), and then published from this the extrapolation that "NT is 200% faster than Linux", when they *knew* that the situation they were testing puts the bottlenecks in different places than the more typical situations, where which Linux performs much better, they were being very dishonest. Pointing this out is *not* zealotry. And, in fact if you were paying attention, you'd see that Linus also points this out on occasion too, that the Mindcraft test was not representative of real-world use, yet none-the-less it did point out an area where the kernel could use a lot of work. (Although webserving isn't the kind of application that really needs 4 NICs, the fact that Linux didn't properly utilize the 4 NICs very well is still something to fix for the sake of other types of applications.) Linus's response is very different than what some would advocate, that we should just bend over and take it when someone shoves FUD at everyone for fear of looking like zealots.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
I wonder if Crusoe will come in five fruity colors :-)
Obviously, Linus has both feed firmly planted on the ground. Whats wrong with so many of the knee-jerk "Linux is #1, Microsoft sucks"? Answer: if you dont acknowledge that the alternatives are in fact good products, each with their own merits, you will never beat them -- not because you cant, but because of your own complacency.
The most interesting quote in the article I thought was this:
"While I was upset about Mindcraft for awhile, I took it as a more positive
thing after I got past the personal injury to my pride," Torvalds said. "We just
delved into it and fixed it. We took this benchmark as a way of saying, 'Yes,
Linux is not the best at everything.' We fixed the area, and as a result, Linux
is doing extremely well on those kind of benchmarks."
Contrast this to how the majority of the community reacted to the Mindcraft benchmark. Rather than moaning about its fairness or whether the playing ground was level or not he (and others) analyzed the kernel and improved its performance. That's the difference between a technically proficient leader and zealots.
But seriously, why "Crusoe"? I consider it an insult, I think they're telling us to get lost!