On 11/2/2011 at 09:18 AM, in message
, Kostas Koudaras wrote: 2011/11/2 Jos Poortvliet : On 01.11.2011 Kim wrote: Am 01.11.2011 16:05, schrieb Jan Krings: Hey Geekos,
I just read an Online-Interview with Linus Torvalds in a big German Newspaper "Die Zeit". http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2011-11/linux-thorvalds-intervi ew
He said on the question which Distribution he use:
"That may change, but right now I'm using Fedora 14, Fedora 15 is such a disaster ... OpenSUSE is possibly my next choice. Suse I used ten years ago and then I someday switched to Fedora. Now I could go back to Suse, but I could also go over to Debian. Debian is the only distribution that I've never really used. We will see."
Doesn´t surprise me that much, actually. Linus said that he used Red Hat Linux at work and SuSE at home, this changed to only Fedora when he had left Transmeta and worked from his home in Santa Clara and since 2004 Portland.
He also told Pro-Linux that for him (and his family) only 2 distributions fit his/there needs. These two were Fedora and openSUSE.
I, in my humble opinion, would suggest openSUSE (of course) to him, but I can´t understand what´s wrong with Fedora 15? That´s including GNOME 3 instead of GNOME 2? Hey, that´s Fedora, progressive to the bones (i´m not saying that´s bad....), so what do you expect?
I would love seeing him using openSUSE (which he will, I guess, we all now his opinion about Debian (stupid exercise)).
Anyway, we should stay on this story. I would love to interview him about that. Maybe we should contact him? I´d love to publish an article about him and his opinion about openSUSE.
If he moves to openSUSE we surely should!
--kdl
I volunteer to interview him for openSUSE, it would be great promoting material for 12.1 to make him a short(5-10 questions) interview I think.
I do not want to sound like a bike shedder. But I believe he may not be interested in giving an interview about "Switching to openSUSE". For most of the kernel developers, the distro is just a convenient way to get some userspace applications which they don't want to build from source (say LibreOffice). In case of Linus, he is happy with Alpine, micro-emacs (built from source), git, xterm etc. So, the distro may not matter much for him. However, what we can do is, we can try to get some PR for Tumbleweed based on Linus' experience. We can try to understand from him what he feels about the rolling release of openSUSE and how he thinks it may be useful for Kernel development etc. My 2 cents. Sankar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner@opensuse.org