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born 1969 Finland
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.
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Also known as: Linus, Linus Benedict Torvalds, Linus torvalds, Torvalds, Linus, David Diamond, The father of Linux
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Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
2.6.: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two).
This whole ARM thing is a f*cking pain in the ass.
Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
People say that you should not micro-optimize; but, if what you love is micro-optimization, that's what you should do.
Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.
My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances [*].
Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.