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FOSS Debates: Dissecting the Kernel
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| As the father of Linux and coordinator of the kernel's development, Linus
| Torvalds might be expected to have strong views on its importance. In fact,
| in a recent interview with LinuxInsider, he said he looks at the question in
| a few different ways.
|
| "The first one is the purely personal one: I think system programming -- and
| kernels in particular -- is just more interesting than doing the more mundane
| kinds of software engineering," Torvalds told LinuxInsider. "So to me, the
| kernel is simply more important than anything else, because it does things
| that no other piece of software does: It's the thing between the hardware
| and 'ordinary programs.'"
|
| Of course, "the kernel really is the heart of the OS and tends to be pretty
| central even aside from my personal opinions," Torvalds added. "The kernel
| ends up being involved in everything you do, which means that if there is a
| performance issue or a security issue with the kernel, you have fundamental
| problems with anything that builds on top of it -- which ends up being
| absolutely everything, of course."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/FOSS-Debates-Dissecting-the-Kernel-66777.html
Recent:
Linus Torvalds – Interview at linux.conf.au 2009
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| 1) Have you given any more thought to changing the version numbering model of
| the kernel?
|
| I'd actually like to change the version numbering because right now the 2.6
| doesn't mean anything at all. Maybe you read the discussion, we had some
| discussion on the kernel mailing list. Just from the discussion my takeaway
| was that right now it's just not worth the pain. So, I think we'll revisit it
| in a year or two, and when we are 2.6.38 or whatever, we'll say “OK, we're
| still 2.6, maybe we should reset the numbering some way”. But nobody really
| came up with very strong arguments for or against any other numbering scheme.
| There were lots of people with different opinions, but there was no
| consensus. So, right now, no. In a couple of years maybe we'll revisit it.
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http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/linus-torvalds?page=1
Interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
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| DW: What are the most exciting things coming up in the Linux kernel?
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| LT: The things I personally care about tend to not even be on the radar of
| most people. The changes to the very lowest levels of the suspend and resume
| model are an example of something I look at closely and think are
| interesting. Most other people don't think that kind of thing matters - at
| least as long as we don't break their laptops suspending ;) Of the actual
| stuff that has any visible impact to users, I guess the interesting area is
| that we're getting all these next-generation file systems and they're going
| to battle it out. "ext4 vs Btrfs in the thunderdome."
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090202#feature
Linux Gazette: February 2009 (#159)
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| * Mailbag
| * Talkback
| * 2-Cent Tips
| * News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff
| * rI18N or The Real Internationalization Project, by Anonymous
| * Installing VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu Server 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), by
| Deividson Luiz Okopnik
| * Away Mission: 2008 in Review - part 1, by Howard Dyckoff
| * Hyperestraier Redux - A User-friendly Approach, by Ben Okopnik
| Automating Hyperestraier's indexing and web interface configuration
| * Using The Red Hat Rescue Environment, by Joey Prestia
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http://linuxgazette.net/159/index.html
The world according to Linus
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| He doesn't own a mobile phone and he is proud of it. And he thinks
| virtualization is over-hyped. Find out what else we prize from Linux guru,
| Linus Torvalds.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;444282619
Related:
Linux set for more handsets in 2008-Torvalds
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| But last month Web search leader Google said it would offer a software
| platform, built on Linux, to make the Internet work as smoothly on mobile
| phones as it does on computers.
|
| "I haven't been personally involved but it certainly looks like 2008 may be,
| thanks to the Google Alliance, one of the years you will find more widely
| available phones with Linux," Torvalds told Reuters in an interview on
| Friday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSL1478887720071214
Linus Torvalds on Open Source: 'A Much Better Way to Do Things'
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| Linux really wouldn't have gone anywhere interesting at all if it hadn't been
| released as an open source product. I also think that the change to the GPLv2
| from my original "no money" license was important, because the commercial
| interests were actually very important from the beginning. The commercial
| distributions were what drove a lot of the nice installers and pushed people
| to improve usability. You need a balance between pure technology and the
| kinds of pressures you get from users through the market.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60052.html
The Grill: Linus Torvalds in the Hot Seat
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| The Finnish creator of Linux says open-source software isn't really an
| anti-Microsoft movement; it's just a better model for getting the job done.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft and Novell last year announced a partnership for the
| interoperability of Windows and SUSE Linux. Some analysts are saying this
| kind of agreement is positive for consumers and can help popularize Linux. Do
| you agree? [Linus:] I don’t know. I don’t actually think the Novell-Microsoft
| agreement matters all that much in the end, but I think it would be healthier
| for everybody if there wasn’t the kind of rabid hatred on both sides. I’d
| rather just worry about the technology. The market will take care of itself.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=303905&intsrc=hm_topic
Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum
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| Andrew S Tanenbaum: A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown
| wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me, from Minix,
| and therefore the intellectual property rights are unclear and
| therefore companies shouldn't use Linux because I might sue them.
|
| It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this --
| and I defended Linus. I wrote on my Web site saying that this
| guy Brown came through, visited me and I gave him the
| [correct] story.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/architecture/soa/Interview_with_Dr_Andrew_S_Tanenbaum/0,339028264,339273224,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3c78xz
Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux
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| LT: We really don't expect to need to go to a 3.0.x version at all: we've
| been very good at introducing even pretty big new features without impacting
| the code-base in a disruptive manner, and without breaking any old
| functionality.
|
| That, together with the aforementioned lack of a marketing department that
| says "You have to increase the version number to show how good you are!" just
| means that we tend to just improve everything we can, but you're not likely
| to see a big "Get the new-and-improved version 3!" campaign.
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http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about
Torvalds attacks Microsoft over open source
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| Microsoft is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt among open source users,
| Linus Torvalds said in an interview published last week.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft could offer no response to Torvalds' comments at the time of
| writing.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030790,00.htm
Torvalds on Linux, MS, software's future
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| CW: Didn't you fear you would lose intellectual property when you released
| Linux?
|
| Torvalds: I didn't think in those terms (and still don't). It was never about
| intellectual property, it was about all the effort I had put in, and it was
| about the project being something personal. But yes, I was a bit worried that
| as a totally unknown developer in Finland, somebody would decide to just
| ignore my license, and just use my code and not give back his changes. So it
| worried me a bit. On the other hand, what did I really have to lose?
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/080907-torvalds-on-linux-ms-softwares.html
Interview with Linus Torvalds
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| We can’t start without a question: does Linux infinge Microsoft patents?
|
| As far as we know, the answer is a resounding “no”, and it’s all
| just MS trying to counter-act the fact that they have problems
| competing with Linux on a technical side by trying to spread FUD.
|
| [....]
|
| What do you think about Novell and Microsoft’s agreement? Which future
| developments will produce? And what about Red Hat’s events?
|
| I really don’t care. You’re asking all these marketing and
| company questions, and the thing is, I’m not at all into it. I’m
| totally uninterested. What I’m into is the technology, and working
| together with people.
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http://www.oneopensource.it/interview-linus-torvalds/
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