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Wow! Linus is using a Macbook Air!
by yabai 15y ago
Wow! Linus is using a Macbook Air!
- muyuu 15y agoRuns GNU/Linux on it too: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/4 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/4
- kzrdude 15y agoIt looks to me like he is using BIOS emulation on the mac, so he gets an IDE interface instead of using AHCI which I get on my efi-booted air.
- xxpor 15y agoWhat would be the advantage of that, other than devo/testing purposes?
- kzrdude 15y agoHe's literally complaining that apple's firmware does not init the hardware properly. If he's using the legacy BIOS boot, that's a fair assessment of that mode, but it's still not the standard way to boot the computer.
- rmc 15y agoI remember reading about his hardware set up a few years ago and yes, he was using apple hardware. It's almost certainly running linux though.
- pimeys 15y agoWell, in the picture I can clearly see a Gnome 3 desktop (with the default wallpaper).
- zdw 15y agoFor a while there he was running Linux on a PowerMac G5 tower as his primary desktop: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/12/13 https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/12/13 Many open source OS projects have core developers on non-x86/amd64 platforms so as to find errors, x86isms, and other code quality issues reveled by fundamental differences in the underlying architectures.
- VMG 15y agothe background is a gnome3 default though
- batista 15y agoYeah, and in the past had a Mac G5 for his home desktop. He run Linux on that. And before that, he used an iBook running OS X to write his autobiography on MS Word (he said so in an interview).
- ruir 15y agoThat's interesting. Pitty I couldn't find a quote in my brief search. I'll try to find that interview later. The bit that really caught my attention was this: "(...) Torvalds, who briefly moved Linux kernel development to GitHub last September following a security breach at its old home." I must have been away when that happened.