Torvalds gives nvidia software thumbs up, not middle finger. Linus torvalds still wants the linux desktop zdnet. Linus torvalds weighs in on apples future migration to. Linux creator linus torvalds is sorry for being a jerk. Linux creator linus torvalds isnt happy with nvidia. The quote comes from torvalds forthcoming autobiography. Nvidia addresses linus torvalds fuck you nvidia remark. You make your purchase on your personal store account, your games will always stay with you. Meet the innovative linux os thats easier to use than. In response to linus torvalds harsh criticisms of nvidias interaction with the linux community, the company issued a statement to phoronix. However, that doesnt mean that apples hardware is runofthemill. In 2012, he told nvidia fuck you and flipped the company the bird for omitting graphics card hardware drivers in linuxs open source code. Torvalds gives nvidia software thumbs up, not middle. Why linus torvalds doesnt like using debian or ubuntu linux.
Basically, linus torvalds is unhappy about the fact that nvidia is not. Heres what torvalds had to say about the macbook air in a recent interview with techcrunch. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary. The legend says that nvidia still is a shitty company and that occasionaly linus torvald says fuck you. Nvidias a100 gpu coming to a cloud near you, darpa details ai war games, intel wants to help scan your brain. Microsoft isnt evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. Dell xps developer edition linus torvalds favorite. To be fair, its actually macos xs kernel, mach, which the linux. Bhartiya has over 15 years of experience covering enterprise open source and emerging technologies. Linus torvalds is not a huge fan of apple products.
Late last week, at a hacker meetup in finland, torvalds laid into nvidia, calling it the single worst company. Why did linus torvalds give a middle finger to nvidia during a. Linus torvalds isnt someone youd accuse of excessive diplomacy and his answer to a question about nvidias lack of support for linux with its. Nvidia responds to linus torvalds scathing criticisms over linux. Linus torvalds doesnt see arm being a threat in the server space, but has. Connect to your favorite stores and stream your library of games. He obviously doesnt use the mac osx, preferring fedora instead why linus torvalds doesnt use ubuntu or debian part 2 debconf what linux distribution is used by linus torvalds. What the tech industry has learned from linus torvalds. Even so, the linux creator is absolutely in love with the macbook. Linux runs everything, everywhere, but linus torvalds still wants it to rule on one place it doesnt. Contribute to torvaldslinux development by creating an account on github. Linus torvalds fbombs nvidia over lack of linux support. Linux creator linus torvalds may call nvidia the single worst company the linux community has ever.
They make a driver for their video cards to work on linux, but its not open source so it cant be integrated in linux. Linus torvalds isnt someone youd accuse of excessive diplomacy and his answer to a question about nvidias lack of support for linux with its optimus technology has. I think the openbsd crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys. A mac without os x is not truly a mac, as it doesnt offer the full mac experience. In a surprise reversal, the graphics chip designer has released experimental software to. Sometimes he can be a little too brash in his opinion, a trait he acknowledged before taking a brief hiatus for some soul searching. The talk was recorded, so the moment has been preserved for posterity jump. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source. He is, as he describes himself, a socks and sandal kind of guy, a tinkerer. Im have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what a. We dont know about exact hardware specifications of torvalds xps, but its popular model comes with 2. And they dont want the users to have to manually add the keys for nvidia, amd, etc which would the secure thing to do. In a talk held at aalto university in helsinki finland, linus torvalds addressed a question from one of the audience members regarding issues they had with a laptop running nvidia optimus graphics.
From massive wins to epic fails, all your best ingame moments are automatically saved with nvidia highlights and easily shared with the world. To be fair, its actually macos xs kernel, mach, which the linux creator so dislikes. Linus torvalds just before he dropped the fbomb on nvidia. Linus torvalds says fuck you, nvidia for not supporting linux. Linus torvalds, the software engineer who became the chief architect of the linux kernel, has hit out against graphics giant nvidia for its lack of support for the linux platform.
Recently linus torvalds stated that nvidia is the worst company to work with in regards to the linux kernel. Linus torvald, creator of linux, says nvidia is a shitty company. Saying that a mac without os x isnt a mac just isnt true. Linux creator linus torvalds didnt mince any words with his criticism of nvidia earlier this week calling it, among other things, the single worst company weve ever dealt with.
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