Linus Torvalds is an Apple user?
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 9th 2005 10:45AM
posted Mar 9th 2005 10:45AM
You know, normally we wouldn't get all up in this tech/celebrity tabloid material (okay, fine, so what?), but hey, whaddayaknow, Linux creator Linus Torvalds—the man known far and wide for spearheading the open-source and *nix movements—has made a move to an Apple. Apparently he's going through a phase—Mac/PC biqueerious experimentation?—and right now a dual-G5 is his main squeeze because he "got the machine for free" and because "[he's] really a technology whore." So Yellow Dog these days, eh Linus?
the article's pretty clear that he's running linuxppc64 on it.
Who cares?
Man, this place is starting to sound more like slashdot every day.
Yeah, if we can get another couple thousand comments like that in this thread, it'll be just like slashdot.
He isn't using OSX. Just the G5 hardware. But to read the Engadgets and Gizmodos of the world, you wouldn't know that.
Yes, but does slashdot have that Carmi dude spamming comments in every other thread pimping his personal blog link?
Dont think so! Thats all Engadget baby!
> joe mamma
hahahaha!!! So true! :-D
Where do we say that he's running OS X? If you read the last line of Ryan wrote, he makes it clear that he's surely running some variant of Linux, nowhere does he imply that he's running OS X.
Or gentoo ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ppc/index.xml )
First they come in droves.. then they turn on your Pete. Happy 1st birthday.
why is this even a big news? I mean, he just informed people that no longer his binary patches in Usenet forums are going to be x86 because he got a dual G5. (ppc-64) Media is trying to misguide some of people; that the creator of Linux uses a Mac. Actually, he is just using a PPC machine. (Which Apple happens to make one).
Oh yeah; Gentoo r0x0r!! :)
#5 and #6
I thought I was the only one that noticed!
It's implied in the headline - "a Mac user" ... Mac OS X is the software. Perhaps "an Apple user" would more accurately portray that he is just using the hardware.