So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging ,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think [Wine] will be, at a minimum, incredibly useful to archeology, like DosBox has been for playing Wing Commander. Certainly it… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming.… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else… — Ryan C. Gordon Copy Share Image
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt.… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
I've felt strongly that the advantage of Linux is that it doesn't have a niche or any special market, but that different… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
One of the questions I've always hated answering is how do people make money in open source. And I think that Caldera… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft… — Kenneth P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand -… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters, and the fact that Linux has had a huge impact on the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior.… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
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