Linux Quotes - Page 2

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.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.