In-case you didn’t know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?
BTW, he uses Fedora.
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It was really fun to watch honestly, it flew by. I’m surprised how charismatic the smart Linus is on camera
It’s worth it for the Elon burn alone.
“I read your book!” “I didn’t watch your videos.” Brutal.
Smart Linus dropping good natured zingers on Less Smart Linus was the tonic I didn’t know I needed.
I feel a debt of gratitude to people like Linus Torvalds and Ton Roosendaal. In a world full of greedy capitalists trying to extract every last scrap of rent they can from humanity, people like them show us that humanity can do better.
Is this enough to update the Fedora Linux wikipedia page, or is it still just “the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020)”? It isn’t exactly confirmed but … like what else is he gonna use. I don’t know if he’d be caught dead using Debian or Arch, and OpenSUSE would be too wild a choice.
I mean, I feel like he outright confirms it in the video. It’s his distro of choice since it allows him to easily use his own compiled kernels in testing. Anything else is an inconvenience to his work.
Ah, but primary recountings aren’t sources, you first need to write an article or book about it (according to Wikipedia sometimes)
Interviews do typically count, it just has to be citable. Videos are sufficient in that regard as well, not just articles or books. It would be different if Torvalds had edited his own wikipedia page, but an editor who updates the page and cites this video would not be in the wrong.
Why would Debian be unacceptable?
Because holding back updates makes the system insecure and unstable.
Are you really saying that Debian is an unstable distro? Regarding security, can you name one security update Debian did ever fail to apply on time? Because it’s pointless to compare feature updates and security updates.
The reason Debian is known to be “outdated” regarding features only is exactly why it’s considered one of the most, even if not the most, stable distro. Because it’s long time tested between upgrades.
Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn’t always forwards compatible.
As for security updates, IDK.
I’m operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I’m not an expert on these things so I’m not really the person to be discussing this with. There’s surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.
My subjective opinion: he uses it because of bleeding edge kernel version. And it is surely, for him more than anyone else, an important point. But it doesn’t mean older kernels are not secure, they can be patched when needed. And the “needed” varies, for some distro it means it’s just not the last one, for others that additionnal and interesting features are added. For Debian, it means patching vulnerabilities if there are, or take the required time to offer a tested and coherent pack of updates. Because otherwise there is for now, no need. Testing is a specific point that no other distro has ever did better than Debian, but the same reason why it feels old to many and not enough up to date, regarding features.
I’m obviously a Debian advocate, but I’m not saying it’s in general the best distro, there are none. Only best for some usage, and not for others.
But it doesn’t make it unsecure (that’s partly why it’s one of the most used server side) and “holding back” updates. :)
Probably not, at least not until there is coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources. Wikipedia generally doesn’t include trivia.
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Once my arch system break I’m probably moving to fedora.
So like a week from now?
Is that some meme? My system has been rock solid for years.
You mean you are using debian and didn’t know it.
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Lol wut? I’ve been running the same garuda arch install for over 9 months without a single issue.
More like 2 days
Probably 🤣
It was too cringe I couldn’t finish it
There is only one real linus
That was a fun video.
Speaking of Linus Tech Tips, here is mister sebastien himself just joshing with the folk at <checks notes> kiwi farms. And… telling them to use more slurs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1pbp23m/linus_the_other_one_posted_on_kiwifarms_to_talk/ and confirmed by mister tech tips himself https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1pbp23m/comment/nrsdlzk/
So… he has been a pretty mask off piece of shit for years. But… damned if this isn’t a new world record for a collaboration to age into sour milk
linus (sebastian) is not a great person but cmon that’s a big stretch.
What is the stretch? That he registered at kiwi farms and even got his account verified so he could shitpost with them, make fun of “lolcows”, and tell them to use more slurs? Or that he himself actively did not deny it and even joked about how people who think that is a bad idea have bad teeth?
this kinda just shows he was affected by their trolling.
How does He know their lingo?
that’s literally standard internet chud lingo, what does this have to do with anything
Lolcow is not standard, I had to look it up. Seems to be kiwifarm specific.
i’ve heard it referring to chris chan way back then, when people were more keen to bully him to madness. i’d understand if linus knows about it from being a victim of it, kiwi farms can get pretty relentless.
I don’t know if Linus (Sebastian) knows, but the interject copypasta that he tried baiting Linus (Torvalds) into was actually Stallman so no wonder Linus (Torvalds) didn’t react to his prods.
