I laughed so hard reading this! They are just people! To some people they are friends, classmates, siblings. Watching interviews for me has made these people into real people, not celebrity deities. Your comment encapsulates that very well.

Linus actually reveals the meaning of life in his book

@@aubreydigital 101010?

he should have been interviewed by someone who's far more knowledgable than him... This is a trainwreck.

You mean made a Pull Request.

Futurelessness.

Diversity is important? Got something against a hive of bees?

Part of it is genetics. We just assume evolution stops at the dermal representation. The truth is we all run on calories and allocate them toward different lobe specializations. Why do you think women invented almost nothing throughout all of human history?

@James Warden Jr. imo, Microsoft can't kill linux, linux is extremely widespread for anything that is not desktop. Even Microsoft uses linux everywhere because it's significantly better for many tasks

@James Warden Jr. you must a microsoft shareholder lmao. in any case your predictions are way off, microsoft can't do anything to an international army of nerds with burning passion

@James Warden Jr. Without Linux, there is no modern computing at the base level. Linux runs in your cars, your washing machines, microwaves, inverters, etc. It's like the Java programming language - it's everywhere

@@anukranan That is your opinion. I find systemd much more usable than System V init scripts; you may not like Poettering, and for good reason, but the fact is that systemd is better than the haters make it out to be. My only concern with it is that it tries to do everything and does not adhere to some principles I hold dear, but I can see why they chose to do it this way. I would have liked systemd to be a bit more streamlined and split up into a number of tools each doing one thing rather than the monolith it is, but it works, and it is much simpler than what we had before. One day, a replacement will come along that adhere to the Unix philosophy more, and then that will replace systemd, but until then, it is a fine and working solution. Regarding Linus's views on userspace, I don't care that much. He does the Kernel, and he's good at that, and anything else is really not to be taken more seriously than any other Linux user's input on this and that. Just because he started the thing doesn't mean he has an informed opinion on everything, or knows the best way to solve other people's problems.

@@dee23gaming And Java should be eradicated. Not because it's slow (it is), not because it is bad taste and bad design (it is), but because of ORACLE and they way those guys inhale open projects and open technologies and close them down and pervert them into a weapon against the very ideals open projects rely on. In this way, Oracle is the ultimate evil. These guys are worse than Microsoft would have ever dreamed to be in their worst days. I would put them at the number 1 spot of evil companies out there, well before meta/facebook, alphabet/google or amazon or whoever else may come to mind.

Hahahaha

hahahaha, it's really so))

As far as i know his wife is quite a specialist in smashing faces. So he can delegate it to her

@@pedrogonzalez5590 Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion whatsoever.

very true. after this interview he jumped on the host and gave him a taste of his pent up frustration from last 2 weeks.

you know Torvalds is never going to see this comment

@@vn773 you must be a blast at the parties.

@@peggyolson8643 somehow everyone tells me this same thing but yet no one actually invites me to any parties :(

@@vn773 Your face explains it.

@@vn773 😎😭😎😭😭

Yeah he's that uncle that doesn't care about your feelings but you know he has your back.

@@YoungGrizzly lmao

@@YoungGrizzly Lmfuckingao

Didn't see Stallman.

@@fedup6127 Yeah only >95% of all servers are powered by Linux, but sure I guess he has "nothing to do with the internet". Okay dude.

@@jetison333 I think you missed that I was responding to a now deleted comment lol. See I'm responding to "Fed Up" and not Phillip?

@@Thatsit36 oop yeah your right

@@Thatsit36 what did the deleted comment say?

@@exampleofasmileyface9433 That Linus had nothing to do with IP/TCP so had nothing to do with the internet.

@Sentient.Observer My wife has a Mac. I was talking about how stable Linux was back in 90's... Nothing Microsoft or Apple had back then could touch it... I had Linux servers where I worked where the uptime was measured in months, some even years.... as far as the tinkering.... that's true, the Mac OS (which is really a BSD fork) was designed and developed to sell to the masses, that'd be "people who know nothing about computers". Linux was designed for freedom and liberty. Oh and "actual software" like photoshop? Have you tried GIMP? www.gimp.org/

Stable compared to 3.1 windows

greybeard alert. lol jk i can't even imagine dealing with the install process for 90s Linux. It makes Arch look like child's play.

LOL, yes! I clocked that, too.

tbh I found most of the questions kinda boring but that probably also made it as chill haha

To be honest snap should be thrown into abyss of oblivion, flatpak is already de facto standard and does everything snap does but better. The only reason snap exists is because Canonical wants its own solution, I don't believe it's used in any other distro than Ubuntu, heck, even Ubuntu derivatives are getting rid of snap. I don't mind having rpm/deb/pacman, but AUR could be successfully replaced with flatpak repos.

@Marcos you didnt listen to the video then. he clearly says he could see himself using a chromebook a few years in the future once there's better support for deb packages. he also says that he sees ChromeOS as a potential standard for Linux desktop use once deb packages are better supported on there too

@Jessica Jones Idk. Im not saying i would, cause i wouldnt. Im just saying that in the video Linus said he would be willing to use one in the future.

@Jessica Jones why not use it? You can run chrome app, android app, Linux app, the only reason I don't use mine is because of the non standard keyboard, so it's a pain for programming but for an average user who just do web stuff and just want something that work. It's great.

Old Lenovo thinkpads and vanilla arch is the future 😎 btw i use arch.

Imagine the potential Chrome OS could have. The problem is that they locked it down but they keep on updating it and things might change. I’d prefered it over Windows 10 because it’s more stable and secure. You can even run Android apps on Chrome OS wich changes the game. Anyway Microsoft annaunced there won’t be a new version of Windows after Windows 10 so I could see Google being able to take the change to bring it on the market for people to download and use since it’s user friendly and simple.

I have also started to watch some of the Linus' interviews/talks in the past couple of days and I have to say you're absolutely right. I haven't seen any of Greg's interviews before this one, and I wasn't particularly looking for one with him involved; But surprisingly I ended up liking this interview the most among the ones I've watched so far! It felt very organic. Good job.

taint* "tainted" becomes double past tense. "didn't" is already past tense, making "tainted" redundant.

It's nuts that at one point 99% of pc's were using windows and then 20 years later linux has pretty much reached 2 billion devices just through android.

Linux is not that new, the first Kernal went out in 1991 00.1, Linus studied the Unix code and then eventually, came up with Linux. Unix has been around since before the 1970s and even before that UNIX was called Unics.

@@Tol1as Linux is on close to 250 million Desktops, PCs, over 3 billion phones, over 80% of Stock Market exchanges and Cloud Systems, Servers etc etc. Linux makes MS look small.

@@STONE6969 It was still very new in 1998 when I first worked with it in high school.

@@jrc6547 well 7 years later is still the early days of Linux, your right.

u got a strong point

its a toupe

Ask him if you can buy it...

Ikr

salam bar to irani ... :) 300 min o devopsi azat mirize ostad

@@ExplorerWebDev its just he is often deacribed as a very mean person. Even the interviewer had some questions asking about that

@@oneextrabit We love him the way he is, a practical Finnish man with excellent English! 👍

S W -- Well, he knows that he's not very good with people. He's talked about it pretty extensively. Probably grew up in a loveless household and just learned how to use his brain more than his heart. He's a goofy dude. I admire him for not completely caving to corporate interests.

@@contingenceBoston "Probably grew up in a loveless household" I think I've heard him say the opposite.

@@autohmae -- I haven't. Though I have heard him explain that his upbringing led him to not respect somebody until they have earned his trust.

Open source... Free software is where it's at, but free hardware is a big issue at the moment.

@Petr Ensinger free as in freedom. It's quite obvious that (s)he's referring to libre hardware.

Petr Ensinger OMG dude you’re moron. Free libre hardware, not materials for hw. You should leave any community because you are a rude newbie rat

@@rockdie9522 lmao - He has a blank account. Go figure.

@Petr Ensinger It is merely that you seem to be unclear and fighting what is a very common definition around the world. Free as in free beer vs free as in unfettered access to the source. They are not the same. Free access to hardware designs is not the same thing as paying nothing for the hardware. When people tried to explain it, you doubled down on your ignorance. So yeah, blank account reflecting a complete lack of anything to be remembered and/or shared accompanied by you arguing on a subject matter of which you demonstrated that you know nothing. Otherwise known as irony.

Arch YES

I use Gentoo. Know your place trash.

Windows here

Lol...this is too funny but I don’t think some people get it

Krešimir Ćosić LFS mustard race checking in. Kneel before your masters.

I Linus you Love

Me too! Never change! You are the real deal ❤️

Let's go champ!

Same. Linus has never changed. Went back and watched his talks at Debconf and such. It was amusing to see people come up to the mic and bawwww about Linus being mean sometimes. Dude has been that way since '91, dude got started in flamewars about MINIX ffs. I'm just glad he hasn't changed, is still honest, and will still tell someone their code sucks and they should be ashamed.

@@rpb7003 He's Finnish, they get a bit stabby sometimes.

George Carlin(RIP) also said the same thing. :)

he'd better copyright that before someone steals it...

linux is a kernel. gnu is the os..

​@@potatoes8169☝️🤓

The anti bill gates

swapnil a mac lover? never heard of this. he wrights loads of linux tutorials and articles, highly doubt he's a mac person.

I can't imagine how Bill Gates's became a child hood hero. The guy who closed down all the software we were playing with.

So if you hadn't known Linus Torvalds, you would have been a psychopath...

Look how luck you got. You could have never been told about Linus and ended up drug addict or murderer.

bill gates contribute more to humanity than linus.I am still a fan to both.

@@milkboysg4595 I agree

If the goal is to have a small footprint kernel, maybe try not including everything you don't need?

This too will pass .....

"The interview was recorded last year at the Open Source Summit." right there in the description

@@gaston-alegre-stotzer oh, thanks. i should have read that

C isn't going anywhere. Even C+ is probably going to be fine for many decades. C#, well who knows. The difference is in their purpose, so for all intents and purposes, MicroSloth has the ultimate say in C#'s future, but C is such a low level language that has no dependency on os or vendor production track, but I don't see C# becoming irrelevant soon anyway. COBOL died because architecture changed. The language couldn't be adapted, nor was it necessary for it to survive. As ARM begins to catch up to x86, C has remained perfectly relevant, valuable and adaptable. It's as close to perpetual as we get in computers. Even quantum computing's bizarre needs can be addressed by C so far and it's unreasonable to believe Q-ing is going to be useful outside of academia and government for the foreseeable future. My opinion.

There have been talks about using Rust in certain places in the kernel. It's the most likely candidate, given its focus on memory safety and being a compiled systems level language, but I don't think anything will ever completely replace C. You can make a C compiler for just about anything, but I don't think every embedded manufacturer wants to port LLVM to target their chip for Rust.

I think C transcended from language to standard so I don't really see it retired, at least not in my life time. And I don't only say that because it's Turing complete and so it can do anything any other modern language can (we could really only be using C for everything if we really wanted). Now, and specially in the future, you'll probably never see it being used in the development of modern applications but for data structure design as the priority there's really nothing better. It's the perfect bridge between low level memory control and abstract enough to not require as much labor as using pure ASSEMBLY. It's syntax is synonym to "code," it's simple, it's powerful, it's fast, it is the standard for what a programming language should be, everything on top of that is convenience, and that's important too. No matter the silicon or platform, compilers for C always show up.

Not at all. Linus created Linux in order to share it with the world. I would think the more prevalent it is, the happier he will be.

He also created it to be the LAST OS you need to create since you can modify it exactly as you please. He made it so you don't have to start from scratch every time. That's why most new OSes are just modifications of Linux.

Terry Davis created a completely unique kernel completely different than windows nt or unix linux and unix macOS. He built a divine intellect simple kernel. TempleOS is a x86_64, multi-cored, non-preemptive multi-tasking, ring-0-only, single-address_mapped (identity-mapped), operating system for recreational programming. TempleOS is the only operating system that cares about the user developer, and also lets you talk to God. Its the only way to halt the modern computing from degenerating into corrupt evil artificial intelligence control of humanity.

@@SpellsOfTruth RIP Terry

Spells Of Truth Bruh moment

Well, I do not think he will love yo back according to his own statement: "I am not a hugger" 🤣😅

WE LOVE YOU BILL GATES!!!!! Thanks to you I can proudly say, I use Windows10 btw!!!!!!

They are required by HW vendors to not disclose anything to the public due to the risk of these things being exploited before there are mitigations. This is done for the safety of everyone. Releasing info about these things before there are mitigations in place would not only be a risk to a lot of people, but also stop the vendors from contacting you with info about certain sensitive vulnerabilities. The HURD people probably weren't notified about spectre or meltdown before the general public, so using that would have left you vulnerable. Say what you like about that practice, but that is how the industry works.

hardware bugs = processor bugs mostly, or micro systems in some hardware

Great until you want to use something outside of the distro.

Jetlag?

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