Linux Quotes

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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

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.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

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.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

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.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

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.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

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

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

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

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

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

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

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

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

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

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.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.