Torvalds: Linux not becoming obsolete would be 'sad', Jul 20, 2008

I can certainly imagine the Linux kernel becoming obsolete--anything else would just be sad, really, in the big picture.

As you might imagine, “the UNIX Haters Handbook” is a list of reasons to dislike UNIX. Concomitantly, the LinuxHaters blog does the same for Linux.

The computer maker has launched two notebooks and a desktop with Hardy Heron, the version of Ubuntu Linux that was released in April.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labelled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys", as part of a wider critique of what he said was self-centred behaviour in the IT security industry.

Face it: Linux is still intimidating to most PC users. And that has nothing to do with the occasional Linux snobbery that newbies can encounter when searching message forums for basic help in getting up and running.

Miguel de Icaza has criticized plans for the next GNU Gnome cross-platform environment that risks damaging the Linux desktop ISV ecosystem by focusing on the Mac.

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