Linus Torvalds is an Apple user?
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?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JP @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
the article's pretty clear that he's running linuxppc64 on it.
BB @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Who cares?
Man, this place is starting to sound more like slashdot every day.
Dorkus Malorkus @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Yeah, if we can get another couple thousand comments like that in this thread, it'll be just like slashdot.
Jeremy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
He isn't using OSX. Just the G5 hardware. But to read the Engadgets and Gizmodos of the world, you wouldn't know that.
joe mamma @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
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!
ElCapitanAmerica @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
> joe mamma
hahahaha!!! So true! :-D
Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
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.
Walker Hamilton @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Or gentoo ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ppc/index.xml )
Jon Maddox @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
First they come in droves.. then they turn on your Pete. Happy 1st birthday.
Tom @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
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!! :)
Adam @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
#5 and #6
I thought I was the only one that noticed!
EC @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
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.