Top 33 Linux Quotes

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

I don’t have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I’m doing.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

We’ve been using C and C++ way too much – they’re nice, but they’re very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

It’s been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android – the most successful mobile Linux distribution – that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

Android’s user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

There are a lot of people who’ve been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

There are lots of Linux users who don’t care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

We’ve announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand – connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

I don’t expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

I’ve never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don’t like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we’re learning from them.

For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

We all love Linux, but it’s also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop – it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

Microsoft loves Linux.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It’s a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way – that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction – and still trust that they’re going to come up with good answers.

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it’s become a real problem for administrators that they don’t have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they’re going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we’ve known them.

I’ve been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.