Linus grants infomative interview to C'T

C'T, the best European Computing Magazine in my opinion, has published an interview with the divinity Linus. For those of you that do not read Teutonic, here are a few key points: Oracle's database port to Linux is important in that it shows how important Linux has become. Linux is squarely targeted at the desktop since that market is harder to penetrate than the server market: you have to get more things right than just the network-code. Linus uses neither KDE nor GNOME, staying with fvwm. He liked what he saw of KDE, but the constant flame wars have made him develop a certain aversion towards both of them. While Linus feels that Qt is a technically excellent product from a good company, he worries that the Linux community cannot accept KDE's political implications, which is a shame. But he understands Redhat's concern that it cannot do everything it deems necessary with KDE, for instance that it cannot repair a security flaw if it finds one in Qt because of Qt's license. Finally, while Linus himself does not want to sign any NDAs with Intel over Merced, he knows other Linux developers who have and is therefore sure that a Merced port will not be a problem.