Linux Quotes

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 think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

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

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

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

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

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

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

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

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

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

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

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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.

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

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

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

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

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

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 currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

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.

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.