• The Two Linuses

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Feb 28 04:59:54 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    This 53-minute video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA> was
    posted back in January, but I only discovered it more recently. In it,
    Linux creator Linus Torvalds pays a visit to the offices of Linus
    Sebastian (the brains behind the rCLLinus Tech TipsrCY YouTube channel),
    while the latter builds the former a new custom PC to the formerrCOs requirements. With a 24-core, 48-thread CPU (great for kernel builds,
    which is what Torvalds spends much of his work day doing), and 64GiB
    worth of memory -- proper ECC memory (a long-time pet peeve of the
    Linux man).

    As the build progresses, they discuss many things, including questions previously collected from the community, addressed to Linus T. Asked
    which of his software rCLchildrenrCY he is more fond of, Linux or Git,
    Torvalds reveals that he only spent 6 months working on Git, before
    passing it off to Junio Hamano, who has been the prime mover behind it
    for the past 20 years.

    (What, no mention of Subsurface?)

    He also brought in one of the guitar-effects pedals that he has been
    designing, purely as a hobby to unwind from his day job, with no
    expectation that they will ever be useful to anybody, not even himself
    (he doesnrCOt play guitar).

    Which distro does he use? It turns out his current fave is Fedora,
    because (unlike, say, Ubuntu) they make it easy for him to replace
    their kernel with his custom, fresh-built ones.
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