Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi on June 14, 2012. Linus was interviewed by Will Cardwell and followed with a Q&A session with the audience. Enjoy!

Event producer Zaira Mammadova ( @iamzaira )

Video produced by Oneminstory {http://www.oneminstory.com/en}

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[Michael Pohoreski]

0:20:40 Do you follow development of any new programming languages? Do you see any other languages aside from C suitable for OS dev?

0:23:43 Why has Linux never been competitive at the desktop level?

0:27:13 You see yourself as a technical person; growing must had to deal with a lot business related things?

0:28:05 When you were developing Linux you started it as a project but as the OS grew your perspective changed about the OS. How long did take to change your perspective to your current one?

[Ryan Beltz]

Nivida fuck you

[jokerneophyte]

IMO preinstalls are not the number 1 reason for linux not taking over the desktop..

[mythreligion]

bookmark for me 0:20:27

[boohoo746]

Linus: "I worked at Transmeta until they had a need to care about their customers, and then I couldn't take it any more, so I left".

[boohoo746]

Linus thinks that Linux based OS is not popular because it does not come pre-installed? He has it backwards. Linux is not pre-installed because Linux based distributions are a pain to use.

Hint: Ubuntu, Android, etc. actually care about making computers easy for the consumer to use, and that is the ultimate reason why the consumer demand for pre-installed Linux is growing.

[B. C. Schmerker]

I've seen the problem with nVIDIA® firsthand, installing Ubuntu® on a rebuilt eMachines®/Acer® EL1210-09 with Shuttle® upgrade PSU and Asus® EN210/DI/512MD3 upgrade VDA - the LinUX Kernel Project had to reverse-engineer the nVIDIA® MCP78S drivers for Microsoft® Windows® NT™ just to get critical information needed for writing drivers, and the X Organization still couldn't support the GeForce® 210, as of 2012.

[skylark8008]

RMS says some very worthwhile things.