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Linus Torvalds on realworldtechLinus Torvalds on realworldtechPosted Mar 12, 2009 19:02 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547)In reply to: 4K, why not also 64K? by james Parent article: Linux and 4K disk sectors
Linus Torvalds has a classic rant on the subject at realworldtech.comIs the Linus Torvalds on realworldtech.com the same person as the well-known author of Linux?
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Linus Torvalds on realworldtech Posted Mar 12, 2009 21:12 UTC (Thu) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link] It seems highly likely, yes.He's got the same use of English (it sounds like Linus), the same technical knowledge, the same opinions on various processors (especially Itanium), the same enjoyment of a good flame war, posts using the torvalds-at-linux-foundation.org email address (although the site doesn't necessarily validate those), and some of these posts have been the subject of news reports on mainstream IT websites (so there's a fair chance that Linus would hear about those posts). Andi Kleen posts there too (or, again, someone calling himself Andi Kleen), and some of the other posters are also very knowledgeable. So there's a good chance that any slips would be noticed. If it is an imposter, he's managed to keep a lot of people fooled for a long time over a lot of arguments. So we can't be as certain as we can that, for example, Alan Cox isn't really a whole load of little Welsh gnomes hiding down disused Welsh coal-mines, but it's pretty likely.
Linus Torvalds on realworldtech Posted Mar 13, 2009 0:35 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
>So we can't be as certain as we can that, for example, Alan Cox isn't really a whole load of little Welsh gnomes hiding down disused Welsh coal-mines
...and how do we know that?
Linus Torvalds on realworldtech Posted Mar 13, 2009 23:23 UTC (Fri) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]
My information is that they're Cornish Pixies hiding down Welsh Coal Mines. Freshly picked Cornish Pixies.
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