Creator of Linux shuns Intel, goes Mac

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm

Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac
By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia
09 March 2005

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore".

Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during a discussion on kernel size reduction that his main desktop machine no longer featured an x86 processor. Hence, Torvalds said, a patch specific to the x86 platform that he was submitting to the list for consideration was totally untested.

ZDNet Australia was intrigued by this remark, and sought to question Torvalds on why the man who has single-handedly revolutionised the use of Unix on the x86 platform would move away from it, and where he had moved to.

Torvald's response came quickly and succinctly. "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) - it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more ;)" he said.

[bbernardini]

1. HAW HAW! (in the style of Nelson Muntz)

[short bus president]

2. smart move, linus

why doesn't EVERYBODY pay out the ass for Mac hardware, only to ditch the OS (which is worth the $ you hafta shell out for the hardware, from what I hear)?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Read again. His employers gave it to him. (nt)