WHat dist do Linus T use

fr33r1d3 · 06-18-2009, 01:51 AM

I know I have read about this somewhere before, but I cant find it now...
What Linux dist do Linus T use?

Cheesesteak · 06-18-2009, 01:56 AM

Fedora

FredGSanford · 06-23-2009, 02:03 AM

This is from an interview he did in May '06...

Quote:

Will: Having used myself many different distros of Linux including SuSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, etc... Do you have a personal favorite mainstream distro?

Linus: I used to actively make sure I used several different ones, just to not be biased. So I had a RH box _and_ a SuSE one, and switched between them, for example. At some point I decided it doesn't really matter any more: the market is big enough that nobody cares what _I_ do, so just for simplicity
I ended up doing just one distribution so that my different machines looked as similar as possible.

Of course, the "one distribution" has changed over time. It used to be SuSE, then when I switched to PowerPC it was YellowDog, then when Fedora did a PPC version I switched to that (so that I could have the same thing on my G5 desktop and my regular x86 laptop).

So right now it happens to be FC5. Whether that is "favourite" or not, I'm not sure. It's more of a random choice.