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I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Think
Good Manager
Has-Been
Fact
Like
Instrumental
Making
Been
Very
Linux
Manager
Successful
Product
For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Barton Gellman
Free
Mac
Recommend
Windows
Linux
Personal
Which
Flavors
Use
Users and entrepreneurs building new business models off the blockchain means that there are competing interests on how best to scale the network. Linux, also an open source software project, had similar growing pains.
Brock Pierce
Best
Business
Building
Blockchain
Software
Project
Scale
Similar
Network
Entrepreneurs
Open
Had
Open Source
New
New Business
Also
How
Source
Off
Linux
Models
Interests
Means
Pains
Users
Growing
Competing
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.
Gabe Newell
People
Problem
Behavior
Big
Holding
Back
Possible
Critical
Run
Easy
Purchasing
Steam
Consumer
Driving
Well
Make
How
Linux
Big Problem
Want
Realize
Games
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
Jamie Zawinski
Today
Time
Will
Machine
Run
Replace
Linux
Maybe
Next
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
Jamie Zawinski
Apps
Running
Terminal
Remotely
Mostly
However
Linux
Use
Displaying
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
Linus Torvalds
Good
You
Too
System
See
Only
Like
Sneaky
Linux
Create
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
Linus Torvalds
Best
Other
Worry
Systems
Pretty
About
Seldom
Concentrate
Making
Very
Linux
Just
Fully
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Linus Torvalds
Before
Own
Rather
Developers
Mainly
Most
Ventures
Because
Motivated
Were
Up
Linux
Commercial
Interests
Hard
Set
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
Linus Torvalds
Indirectly
Linux
Get
Paid
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.
Linus Torvalds
Positive
Good
You
Feedback
Positive Feedback
Something
Put
Makes
Linux
Effort
Cycle
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.
Linus Torvalds
Random
Envisioned
Because
Linux
Get
Unexpected
Just
Just Because
Biggest
Places
Enjoyment
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Resume
Hungry
Pretty
Pretty Good
Looks
Leave
Go
Linux
Expect
Decide
Places
Many
University
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
Linus Torvalds
Competition
Goals
Try
Threat
See
Windows
Simply
Mainly
Because
Linux
Microsoft
Different
Really
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
Linus Torvalds
Important
Too
Part
Developers
Important Part
Always
Been
Linux
Customers
Themselves
Actually
Thing
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Linus Torvalds
People
Free
Before
Changed
Software
Took
Approach
Projects
Visible
Ways
More
Both
Area
Free Software
Open
Open Source
Looked
Practical
Ideological
Because
How
Were
Source
Linux
Bigger
Many
Technical
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Innovation
Other
Systems
Some
Features
Operating
Operating Systems
Proud
Linux
Capabilities
Really
Technical
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
Miguel de Icaza
Learning
Programs
Considering
Out
Some
Also
Existing
Lot
Linux
Rolling
Which
Them
Customers
Migration
Desktop
It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.
Mikko Hypponen
Sad
Problem
World
Bit
Out
Introduced
Android
Distribution
See
Most
Been
Mobile
Linux
Really
Successful
A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
Nat Friedman
Free
Fact
Lot
Linux
Momentum
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
Nat Friedman
Problem
Big
Become
Nice
Tools
Administrators
Point
Reached
Real
Linux
Manage
Real Problem
Where
Deployment
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
Richard Stallman
Indeed
System
Android
Component
About
Only
Between
Contains
Operating
Operating System
Because
Very
Linux
Just
Common
Different
Little
Kernel
Microsoft loves Linux.
Satya Nadella
Linux
Microsoft
Loves
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
Steve Ballmer
Property
Cancer
Sense
Everything
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Itself
Linux
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
Theo de Raadt
Quality
System
Run
About
Never
Cheap
Parts
Been
Linux
Just
Happens
Little
Many