Month: February 2009

Mark Shuttleworth: “We are our own worst enemy”

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In a recent interview at Golem.de , the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, points out some thoughts about the importance of working on creating a beautifully Linux. Also he talks about MacOS X as a paradigm of that and the problems of the Linux desktop today. Last but not least, he talks about Netbooks and the … Read more

Microsoft Windows reveals stupidity…

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Part of the source code to Windows 2000 had been leaked onto the Internet before, and pretty it was not. Microsoft’s flagship product turned out to be a vast sprawl of spaghetti in Assembly, C and C++, all held together with sticky tape and paper clips. The source code files contained many now-infamous comments including “We are morons” and “If you change tabs to spaces, you will be killed! Doing so f***s the build process”.

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Linus Torvalds interview at computerworld.com

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In January 22-2009 Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux OS, talks about the open source identity. He spoke about a host of topics

Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds

including point releases, filesystems and what it is like switching to GNOME. He also puts Windows 7 in perspective. I would like to point some of them :

It’s 2009 and Linux development is approaching 20 years. How do you look back at the past two decades?

I feel like its very natural and I don’t think it will go away. I have a suspicion I will be doing this for a long time and there is no feeling of “it is done”. I don’t have a feeling to pass it on [maintenance of the Linux kernel], but I let the people I trust make the decisions. I can’t second-guess them as it wouldn’t work and I would waste a lot of people’s time. All the sub-maintainers sync their git trees with the main code and I check they haven’t done something horrible, but that’s rare.

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