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All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
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I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .
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I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am not recognized people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
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Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
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Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.
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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
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Whoever came up with hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode should be shot.
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It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.
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I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
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