What Linux distro does Linus Torvalds use?

[hhh]

I do know that he much prefers KDE over Gnome

As of one year ago, that is totally wrong...

I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster, I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users, and they can choose to use something else.

I realize the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so may changes, it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end, and I will retry KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost.

sources...
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?is...090202#feature
http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...yName=Software

He may have switched back by now, I can't find a more recent interview on the subject.

Personally, I'm in love with Openbox/tint2 (along with a slew of others on this forum).

[katie-xx]

Personally, I'm in love with Openbox/tint2 (along with a slew of others on this forum).

Openbox is boss with me too.

Kate

[jtslau]

From what I heard over the past year or so (and no I don't stalk Linus or anything)

- Linus uses a PowerPC G5 Dual
- Linus currently has Fedora installed (most likely because of all the main distros, Fedora officially supports PowerPC)
- Linus uses GNOME nowadays, ever since KDE4 came out.
- Linus does not use elite distros like Gentoo because he wants a distro that is easily maintainable, he does not like to spend all his time compiling. His interest with Linux is on the kernel, and not on how icons are arranged on the desktop

[Giant Speck]

This thread is over three years old.

[Post Monkeh]

+1

stop! hammer time!

[kevin01123]

why distro? he just needs kernel , bootloader and a shell with vi :O

wbr Shin Gouki

Linus uses microemacs, not vi.

[XubuRoxMySox]

I heard he was using LCARS now.

[dragos240]

I heard he uses fedora.

[swoll1980]

As of one year ago, that is totally wrong...

That post was made 3 years ago.

[murderslastcrow]

I think he would like us to be as misinformed as possible. So I'd say he uses a hybrid DE that utilizes an Xfce panel with equal use of Qt and GTK utilities, uses PackageKit, and runs Safari through Wine as his web browser.

TADA!

He probably gets bored and switches to a new one every 6 months or so. But I can definitely see the appeal of an officially supported PPC distro.

EDIT: Lol, Wine on PowerPC. What was I dreaming?