Linux Quotes

82 quotes by 26 authors

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. — Eric S. Raymond
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run… — Jamie Zawinski
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. — Jamie Zawinski
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of… — Gabe Newell
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me… — Tim O'Reilly
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels — Richard Stallman
I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ...… — Linus Torvalds
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people. — Nicholas Negroponte
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through… — Eric S. Raymond
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. — Theo de Raadt
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people… — Linus Torvalds
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. — Jamie Zawinski
Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees. — David "Doc" Searls
Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. — Nat Friedman
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers… — Nat Friedman
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long… — Paul Gigot
The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general.… — Linus Torvalds
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen… — Linus Torvalds
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them — Dean Stockwell

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