OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19552/Torvalds_Gets_Sense_of_Humour Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:02:45 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307426 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307426 .. Linus always had a good sense of humor. I was just very direct and in your face. And he lacks a lot of political correctness ( Calling people interface nazis and stuff .. ) but that mainly just offends germans and americans i guess.
I would never call somebody a nazi on the interwebs, cause they never forget. But i still think Linus is a cool guy.
Just exspect "Supergeek meets South Park" and you won´t be surprised ;)

And btw: Why doesn´t Fedora ship Gnash?? Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments you don't want to upset Linus's wife http://www.osnews.com/thread?307432 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307432 She's a six-time female Finnish national karate champion. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JoeBuck) Comments RE: Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307435 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307435
And he lacks a lot of political correctness ( Calling people interface nazis and stuff .. ) but that mainly just offends germans and americans i guess.


No, don't mind. In Germany, we don't have any political opinion, and "Nazi stuff" is an absolute no-go here, you are not welcome to talk about it in public (the same way death or war are no-go topics here), just a sidenote in history classes. Still enough every German and all his descendants get ashamed, but not enough to know anything in particular. Getting information without propaganda interferences isn't that easy. Strange contradiction... forgetting it and still being guilty... Deniying history is much better than learning from it, isn't it? (This was off-topic, I know.)

I would never call somebody a nazi on the interwebs, cause they never forget.


Many real Nazis from Germany had to find this out, too. :-) But you're right. The term "Nazi" implies many things you should not attribute to a person, not even for "joy purposes", because the Nazis, their henchmen and followers have brought much sorrow towards their victims. And that's no joy. But you may still poke fun at their stupidity. :-) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments Torvalds GETS a sense of humor? http://www.osnews.com/thread?307438 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307438 As far as I can tell, Linus Torvalds has ALWAYS had a sense of humo(u)r.

check http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18 if you don't believe me; that kernel was released on 'talk like a pirate day'

And then there's his quote (at some point) about Linux doing infinite loops even faster than the competition...

And so on, and so on. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DigitalAxis) Comments And in Other News http://www.osnews.com/thread?307443 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307443 Theo de Raadt develops a temper and Hans Reiser has an abrasive personality. More at 6... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (galvanash) Comments RE: Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307446 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307446 Fedora 9 Beta installs swfdec by default instead of Gnash since swfdec uses gstreamer. Which means Linus, a long term Fedora user actually got the video working by installing the gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg. Refer the bug report for details. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments RE[2]: Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307452 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307452 Gnash can also use GStreamer. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments Too fun http://www.osnews.com/thread?307453 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307453 Sorry for the trolling, but this is too fun.
Is He actually using Fedora!? hahahahahahaha...ha
It looks like the ffmpeg packages weren't yummy enough. ha ha ha
I've got a BUG too! Debian unstable package maintainers made it too easy to get right so I didn't get to file a bug like real kernel hackers do! ha ha ha ha
Just be nice and don't mod me below -1, please. hahahaEdited 2008-04-01 01:24 UTC Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sakeniwefu) Comments RE[3]: Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307457 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307457 Well yes but it is not very mature yet and doesn't have hooks for installing additional codecs easily like swfdec does. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments Always been funny http://www.osnews.com/thread?307461 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307461 "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."

- Linus Torvalds

More here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (brewin) Comments Now, *this* is community. http://www.osnews.com/thread?307469 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307469 I love the sheer candidness of this whole thing. How many Mac or Windows users can say they've read a similar online exchange from the founders of their respective OS camps? Apart from the time I bumped into Alan Cox in a restaurant, this has to be my most favorite linux moment. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Howie S) Comments RE: you don't want to upset Linus's wife http://www.osnews.com/thread?307489 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307489 You mean, she would finnish us off? Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dwave) Comments Maybe that will teach him http://www.osnews.com/thread?307492 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307492 to renounce his evil ways and use Debian. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (utumno) Comments Comforting http://www.osnews.com/thread?307500 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307500 I find it comforting that Linus has similar problems to me (both software and hardware, software can't get youtube to play and hardware - wife) â€" makes me feel that I might not be an idiot. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gone fishing) Comments Comment by MORB http://www.osnews.com/thread?307502 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307502 What, Linus is a geek and spews off internet memes? Shocking!

Although this: "Maybe this makes somebody go "duh! you're doing it wrong!" sort of give the impression that he just discovered internet memes and is eager to spout them whenever he can.

Any volunteer to goatse him? Just in case he doesn't know it yet. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MORB) Comments Linus Torvalds gets a sense of humour... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307514 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307514 ... but at what price?

Expected results:

Rick Astley in all his glory!

He seems to have lost any musical taste he may have had.

If anyone doesn't know who Rick Astley is, please don't go on YouTube to find out, if you really must, atleast unplug your speakers and monitor first.

I would have said that the inability to play Rick Astley videos is an advanced feature, rather than a bug. In fact you could probably say the same about most of the content on YouTube.

*BTW, I agree with all the posters who say he always had a sense of humour.Edited 2008-04-01 12:18 UTC Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jhoo) Comments RE[2]: you don't want to upset Linus's wife http://www.osnews.com/thread?307517 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307517 oh, that's soooo good Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments RE: Now, *this* is community. http://www.osnews.com/thread?307519 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307519 Gates had his moments too. Remember the farewell video? It was quite hilarous. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (miscz) Comments RE: Too fun http://www.osnews.com/thread?307535 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307535 You would be surprised of how much kernel developers use Fedora (and red hat before that), and not Debian or things like that. Kernel hackers don't want to spend their time configuring a distro, they want a ready-to-use distro that makes easy to install a kernel development environment. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments and he uses amarok http://www.osnews.com/thread?307537 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307537 "I know sound works, because amarok and other apps have no problem. Any clues?" Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (diegocg) Comments RE: Maybe that will teach him http://www.osnews.com/thread?307539 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307539
to renounce his evil ways and use Debian.


I prefer Debian myself (especially over Fedora), and I'm sure you were joking. However, I must say that Red Hat is one of the finest and least evil companies I have ever seen. Because of this, I would probably choose the phrase "foolish ways" instead of "evil ways". Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (qortra) Comments RE[2]: Well ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?307545 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307545 actually I do not feel offended as I simply put it in the context Linus is talking about and thereby understand what he's trying to say. It is unfortunate to get too hung up on words.
German sensitivities and taboos are a PITA, but perhaps I've just been away for too long, and this partly is why. People need to get a life. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Barnabyh) Comments The best part http://www.osnews.com/thread?307658 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307658 I think the high point of the bug reports are the south park and rick-roll references. Does this mean rick rolling is mainstream now? The next thing you know he'll be bel airing us in release announcements. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE: Comment by MORB http://www.osnews.com/thread?307659 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307659 I think Linux Torvalds is a pretty cool guy, eh writes kernels and doesn't afraid of anything. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE[2]: Too fun http://www.osnews.com/thread?307660 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307660
Kernel hackers don't want to spend their time configuring a distro, they want a ready-to-use distro that makes easy to install a kernel development environment.


Like the original poster, this makes me laugh hard. Do you realize that you're describing Debian and not Fedora?Edited 2008-04-01 23:30 UTC Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments Once a hacker, always a hacker http://www.osnews.com/thread?307662 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307662 And hackers are famous for their wicked sense of humor, even Linus, "I can't code everything for u people" Torvalds. Ha!

PS to Gortra â€" Red Hat is a great company. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zaine_ridling) Comments RE[2]: you don't want to upset Linus's wife http://www.osnews.com/thread?307689 http://www.osnews.com/thread?307689 Now all we need is for someone to port Mortal Komabat to KDE. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Johann Chua) Comments