Linus Torvalds, creador del núcleo de Linux, junto a otros como Richard Stallman, han cambiado el mundo del software para siempre. Y en una entrevista se decidió a hablar del futuro del sistema operativo del pingüino, problemas con los ciclos de liberación, y de cuál distro corre en su PC.

Si deseas saber qué esta sucediendo con el núcleo 2.6, habrá una versión 3.0, o qué esta haciendo actualmente Linus, lo puedes averiguar en Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux.

APC: Do you use a specific distribution of Linux at home or work?

Linus: A “specific” one? No. I have changed distributions over the years, and it tends to really end up depending on various random circumstances, like just when I switch machines around and what happens to be convenient.

So right now I happen to run Fedora on my machines, which largely came about from me running on POWER for a few years, and Fedora supported it pretty well (and since I actually don’t care that deeply about the distribution, I tend to prefer running the same thing on everything, just to keep any distro issues away).

Before Fedora had PowerPC support, I ran YDL for a while, and before that I had SuSE. Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the “technical” ones, so I’ve never run Debian, because as far as I’m concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the “compile everything by hand” ones simply weren’t interesting to me.

Podemos concluir que a Linus no le gusta Debian ni las distros donde es necesario compilar todo a mano!.