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!9. Does Linus have a home page?
He has one at [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds]; it's got an animated penguin and cute pictures of his baby daughter Patricia Miranda Torvalds.
!10. What editor and mail reader does Linus use?
-Linus deftly avoids the most persistent religious war
in the hacker
community by using neither Emacs nor vi. He uses MicroEmacs. And, we are told, Pine as a mail reader.
+Linus deftly avoids the most persistent ReligiousWar
in the [Hacker]
community by using neither [
Emacs]
nor [
vi|vi(1)]
. He uses !
MicroEmacs. And, we are told, Pine as a mail reader.
!11. What is Linus's email address?
You can reach him at torvalds@transmeta.com.
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Note: because Linus is who he is, he gets a staggering amount of email that he has to deal with. Don't waste his time. Linus is too nice a guy to hurt you if you abuse this address, but there are probably about a hundred thousand people who would be displeased enough to mess with you if you did.
!12. What does Linus do when he's not hacking Linux?
-He works for Transmeta
.
-%%%
-We have a picture of his family.
-%%%
-He drinks beer (especially Guinness). Occasionally he shoots pistols. He does not combine these two activities.
-%%%
-
-%%%
-
+*
He works for the Open Source Development Lab
.
+*
He plays with his baby daughters, Patricia Miranda and Daniela.
+*
He drinks beer (especially Guinness). Occasionally he shoots pistols. He does not combine these two activities.
+*
He enjoys driving his BMW Z3.
+*
Yes, he in fact has a life. We await enlightenment on his other leisure-time activities. Assuming he wants to talk about them.
!13. Linus took a job with a non-Linux company?
Yes, he did. There is a rumor that he considered going to work for Red Hat, but did not want to show favoritism towards any one Linux vendor. Linus has declined to either confirm or deny this rumor. He uses Red Hat at work and SuSE at home.
!13. Has Linus ever been wrong about anything?
Yes, once. He was, by his own admission, "not rational" about the binding of the Linux backspace key. This is also about the only time he has ever pulled rank on anybody.
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We suppose this just goes to show he really is human after all.
+
+(Linus does not get put into Category:Politics; he just does the job, he very carefully avoids all the politicing surrounding [Free] vs [free] etc.)
!14. Is there anyone else who often gets forgotten when we talk about Linux?
-Yes. [RMS] is often forgotten. Remember, he actually probably wrote more of Linux than Linus did (The OS, not the kernel).
+Yes. [RMS] is often forgotten. Remember, he actually probably wrote more of [GNU]/[
Linux]
than Linus did (The OS, not the kernel).
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