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02-11-2003, 10:28 PM
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Linus Torvalds
Just a crap question 
what is Linus Torvalds up to these days? still working on the kernel or what? |
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02-11-2003, 11:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Illinois (SW Chicago 'burbs)
Distribution: openSUSE, Raspbian, Slackware. Previous: MacOS, Red Hat, Coherent, Consensys SVR4.2, Tru64, Solaris
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Re: Linus Torvalds
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Just a crap question
what is Linus Torvalds up to these days? still working on the kernel or what?
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Still working at Transmeta and wrangling with kernel developers. You can catch some of his input/comments at Kernel Traffic. (Almost always something interesting being discussed there.) |
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02-12-2003, 03:06 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Turkey&USA
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as long as the kernel number goes bigger linus torvalds is still on the job
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02-12-2003, 02:05 PM
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Location: Exeter, UK
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Still working at Transmeta
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What does he actually do there. |
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02-12-2003, 06:19 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Washington
Distribution: Gentoo
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Last I heard (from linux magazine) he had just gotten done firing a bunch of people. What he does the rest of the time.... I dont know.
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02-12-2003, 06:33 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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Work on the linux kernel 
Cool |
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02-13-2003, 07:55 AM
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Exeter, UK
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Doesn't he just decide on the patches now that go into the main tree?
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02-13-2003, 08:21 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Moved: More suitable as its not a Linux technical question.
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