Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation


 
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Throughout the Linux community, there are conferences, summits, expositions, and symposiums being held all over the world. Missed
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Good to get some insight into the apparent separation of "kernel" and "userland".

Very nice to hear and see his views on the current state of the Linux Kernel.

Unfortunately, Linus is not very dynamic and is not a very good spokesperson for Linux. His opinions should be in print, only.



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