Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux 727
lca writes "Linuxworld Australia has an interview with Linus Torvalds about the current state of the Linux desktop and where it will go this year among other things. Also discussed are topics such as hardware support, the SCO issue, and whether or not he will be moving to Australia."
They missed one. (Score:5, Funny)
They didn't ask Linus if he paid his $699 licensing fee to SCO. It'd be a shame for him to have to stop working on their OS..
LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST (Score:2, Funny)
Can you say "Bill Gates as Pontious Pilate"?
"Look, I'm Linus Christ. I can serve 5000 webpages using 5 analog phone lines and 3 Amigas!"
Yes, I'm making vauge references comparing the Son of God to the Open Source movement. I'm bored and my mind is wandering.
akedia
people say a lot of stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Won't be moving back to Finland (Score:5, Funny)
Or is it "Can't move back to Finland"? Has he crossed the Finnish mafia once too often? Did he wake up to find smelt heads in his bed? What's the REAL story here?
If he is moving to Australia... (Score:2, Funny)
If he is moving to Australia, maybe he can bring LinuxWorld a new webserver.
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:4, Funny)
So much for Finnish pride (Score:3, Funny)
Linus says: I do work from home so I could work anywhere. I definitely won't be moving back to Finland though.
The last half of that sentence was a total non-sequiter. Maybe he is trying to get his mother off his back.
Re:No offense, (Score:2, Funny)
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:5, Funny)
At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later
discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying
to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a
protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, Attorney general John Ashcroft
said he believes the man is a member of the notorious
al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with
carrying weapons of math instruction.
"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult,", Ashcroft said. "They desire
average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off
on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret
code names like "x" and "y" and refer to themselves as
"unknowns", but we have determined they belong to a common
denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
"As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, there are 3
sides to every triangle," Ashcroft declared.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If
God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction,
He would have given us more fingers and toes.
"I am gratified that our government has given us a sine that
it is intent on protracting us from these math-dogs who are
willing to disintegrate us with calculus disregard. Murky
statisticians love to inflict plane on every sphere of
influence," the President said, adding: "Under the
circumferences, we must differentiate their root, make our
point, and draw the line."
President Bush warned, "These weapons of math instruction
have the potential to decimal everything in their math on a
scalene never before seen unless we become exponents of a
Higher Power and begin to factor-in random facts of vertex."
Attorney General Ashcroft said, "As our Great Leader would
say, read my ellipse. Here is one principle he is uncertainty
of: though they continue to multiply, their days are numbered
as the hypotenuse tightens around their necks."
Re:Australia? (Score:1, Funny)
1) they have kangaroos
2) great barrior reef
3) they say "g'day"
4) lots of outdoors stuff to do
5) toilets flush in opposite direction.
Re:LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST (Score:2, Funny)
2) PROFIT!!!!
3) ?????
Re:Won't be moving back to Finland (Score:1, Funny)
Finally. That rant was getting pretty tiresome.
Re:Won't be moving back to Finland (Score:1, Funny)
Whoa there! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Australia? (Score:5, Funny)
Must get damn expensive in cleaning products. I mean you gotta wonder why someone bright spark hasn't thought about making the stuff go down when you flush.
Re:Australia? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Australia? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:5, Funny)
(kidding!)
Re:LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST (Score:1, Funny)
As expected I'll start the answers to what the missing option is:
3: Eternal Damnation
Don't forget ... (Score:3, Funny)
Clean Skies Initiative
I'm a compassionate conservative.
Or my favorite:
I was elected President of the United States.
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:4, Funny)
For the glasses. (Score:3, Funny)
So we can all wear those cool red/blue glasses at work!
Duh!
Re:Australia? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Right... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux isn't user friendly. (Score:2, Funny)
. . . instead we have software with names like yacc, Bison, and ANTLR (all of these programs are used in compiler design).
Yeah, I know. My grandma's gonna be pissed when she can't find the right tools for compiler design.
Re:Yet another... (Score:5, Funny)
"Every year we had been hearing that this year was to be the year of the LAN. Allsorts of hype, and eventually it died down, and when it did, LANs were everywhere."
I highly suspect that it is going to be like this for linux :)
Re:people say a lot of stuff (Score:3, Funny)
Now there's Pepsi all over my laptop and TV!
Re:Yet another... (Score:2, Funny)
I am now in my 6th year of Linux on the desktop, and I must say... It gets better every year.
finse
Re:Patience little one -- patience! (Score:2, Funny)
He'd better not install XP, then, as that's the first thing it asks you.
Re:Australia? (Score:4, Funny)