Does LINUS TORVALD post on here ?

[crow2icedearth2]

i was just wondering if linus torvald himself post on justlinux.com

i have many questions for him. not about linux but about other stuff .

[JohnT]

Originally posted by crow2icedearth2
i was just wondering if linus torvald himself post on justlinux.com

i have many questions for him. not about linux but about other stuff .
STUFF!!!
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[X_console]

Maybe you should email him instead.

[fatTrav]

johnt, where do u get those unique smiley images you put in your posts? :p

maybe the book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066620732/qid=1092207329/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/104-4891540-0371107?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
he has out would answer some of your questions

[MB[DK]]

Originally posted by fatTrav
johnt, where do u get those unique smiley images you put in your posts? :p

maybe the book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066620732/qid=1092207329/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/104-4891540-0371107?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
he has out would answer some of your questions

I think he is getting some kind of volume discount. He's been using quite a lot of those recently.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by fatTrav
johnt, where do u get those unique smiley images you put in your posts? :p

maybe the book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066620732/qid=1092207329/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/104-4891540-0371107?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
he has out would answer some of your questions
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[hard candy]

Wired (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus_pr.html)

had a good article on Linus.

A couple of other good articles:

LinuxWorld (http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44851.htm)

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868110_mz063.htm

You could try emailing him and asking the questions.

[keyshawn]

from what i remember reading from somewhere online [or maybe it was a book] the only places he spends online are in some dev irc channels and some nix newsgroups.....
anyone confirm this ?

[hard candy]

The kernel newsgroups definitely.

[squeegy]

I see posts from Linus on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) but thats the only places I have ran into him.

[janet loves bill]

Originally posted by squeegy
I see posts from Linus on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) but thats the only places I have ran into him.

Yes, me too........I have also seen alot of trolling post by Richard Stallman
spouting his GNU nonsense.........He should really get to work on GNU Hurd and quit whinning about linux..........

[crow2icedearth2]

without richard we wouldnt have alot of GNU programs like gcc , emac , etc

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Yes, I do post, but I prefer going under the pseudonym of Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379, just to avoid any attention...

:p

[duncanbojangles]

I'm pretty sure nothing anyone says here would interest him. If you were Linus, the creator of one of the greatest kernels in the world, would you want to listen to someone talk about how they can't compile the kernel, get their audio drivers working, or the scroll wheel in X working? I think not. Linus has better things he would need to discuss. So if you'd like to interact with Linus, study the kernel and point out an improvement or bug, send him an e-mail telling him how great he is, or start up a casual chat on IRC with him. Don't bug him with USB camera issues.

Man, I feel mean. I don't mean this in a mean way, but if you were a famous football player, would you want to talk to some kid about his kicking problem? It's the same way with Linus.

[JohnT]

If you were Linus, the creator of one of the greatest kernels in the world You mean he started that whole fried chicken franchise thing? Man....that guy is *****ious.:p

[duncanbojangles]

I was sure to say "kernel" and not "OS" so Richard Stallman didn't kill me in my sleep.

[psi42]

Originally posted by duncanbojangles
I'm pretty sure nothing anyone says here would interest him. If you were Linus, the creator of one of the greatest kernels in the world, would you want to listen to someone talk about how they can't compile the kernel, get their audio drivers working, or the scroll wheel in X working? I think not. Linus has better things he would need to discuss. So if you'd like to interact with Linus, study the kernel and point out an improvement or bug, send him an e-mail telling him how great he is, or start up a casual chat on IRC with him. Don't bug him with USB camera issues.

Man, I feel mean. I don't mean this in a mean way, but if you were a famous football player, would you want to talk to some kid about his kicking problem? It's the same way with Linus.

linus help!!!!!! cannot get nvidia drivers to install i downloading them and i clicked on them in the explorer thingy and it said an error message i don't know what it say becuz obvious that it don't mean nothing important, sum thing about being init two or three or seven i dun remmeber plz help u me i am a por n00b

Yeah okay. I think you just might have a point there. :D

~psi42

[X_console]

Originally posted by duncanbojangles
Man, I feel mean. I don't mean this in a mean way, but if you were a famous football player, would you want to talk to some kid about his kicking problem? It's the same way with Linus.

It's 'cuz you are mean. ;)

[duncanbojangles]

Eh, sorry. I'll try to be nicer in the future. The problem is that I could really imagine someone here asking him personally for help with their installation. It's the kind of "ask before you research" mentality that makes me bitter.

[MB[DK]]

Originally posted by JohnT
You mean he started that whole fried chicken franchise thing? Man....that guy is *****ious.:p

That would be "colonel", but I like the way you think.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by duncanbojangles
Eh, sorry. I'll try to be nicer in the future. The problem is that I could really imagine someone here asking him personally for help with their installation. It's the kind of "ask before you research" mentality that makes me bitter.

I HATE that mentality, too.

But wouldn't that be something to brag to your script kiddie little friends?

dude... I thought Linux freakin sucked, until Linus himself walked me through installing it!

I wonder how hard it be to pass yourself off as Linus to someone who'd never met him? Just go to a place, and say, hey, I'm Linus, and I made a little computer program called Linux... you've heard of it, maybe? ;)

[crow2icedearth2]

Linus has better things he would need to discuss. So if you'd like to interact with Linus, study the kernel and point out an improvement or bug, send him an e-mail telling him how great he is,

no kidding man thats why i need to get involved with the linux kernel developement

[duncanbojangles]

How many people actually know what Linus looks like? I've seen a few pictures of him, and there's nothing in his physical features that really set him apart from most other people. He doesn't look like the pasty long haired hacker that RMS does. You would have to speak with a Finnish accent, and that might be hard to reproduce.

"Haylo, I'm Linus."
"Nice to meet you. You wouldn't happen to know anyone named Charlie Brown?*chuckle*"
"Noa. But I deed write Leanux. Have yoo heard of eet?"
"Isn't Linux that little android that looks like a blonde kid IBM is making?"
"...Yeah, sometheeng like that."

[Ludootje]

Originally posted by janet loves bill
Yes, me too........I have also seen alot of trolling post by Richard Stallman
spouting his GNU nonsense.........He should really get to work on GNU Hurd and quit whinning about linux..........
Shouldn't you show a *little* respect at least? Remember Linux is not an OS, it's the same as Microsoft's kernel32.dll (with fewer bugs, I admit), all those great utilities - the GNU utilities - you've got them thanks to RMS's ideas.

As for the Hurd, it's pretty complete AFAIK. Here's my understanding of it:
The kernel isn't complete/stable/mature, yet. But the GNU developers don't make a kernel, just the Hurd libraries. They *do* help fixing Mach (the kernel), though. The problems with "the Hurd" are actually (mostly) problems with the Mach kernel. Work is being done to make the Hurd work with L4 (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/), though, and then it might work better.

Even if my understanding of this is incorrect, you have no excuse for bashing on RMS - no matter what you've accomplished.

(nothing personal about this rant - I just don't like it when people complain about RMS and his "zealotry", etc, etc)

[duncanbojangles]

Definitely gotta give props to RMS. Even if the only thing he ever did was make GCC, he'd still be a god to me.

The Hurd is actually pretty cool from what I've read about it. It just got stuck with a bad rap for not using the Linux kernel. There are hundreds, well, maybe not hundreds, but plenty of other kernels out there. And RMS does have a point: His tools are used everyday on tons of Linux and other Unix boxes, but he gets bashed 'cause he wants a little recognition.

But he still looks like a hacker.

[xlilo]

who is LINUS TORVALD?

[Ludootje]

Actually it's Linus Torvalds.
Short version: He's the dude who originally wrote the Linux kernel.
Long version: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/