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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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In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep.
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.
None of this "there is no way to continue" bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with. So, Nvidia, fuck you!
I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
Get rid of it. And I don't *ever* want to see that shit again.
It's Easter Sunday, which means that we're all about to gorge on mämmi (Right? You *do* have your carton of mämmi ready to go, don't you?).
Don't bother. Bram doesn't know what he's talking about.
Finally, I have a firm belief that most firmware developers are not actually humans, but are instead caged rodents fed a solid diet of crack cocaine. Because that would explain a lot.
"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.