What Linux distro does Linus Torvalds use?

[Interestedinthepenguin]

My brother asked me that question, and I'm pretty curious myself.

[ComplexNumber]

none. he uses OS X, i'm led to believe.

[Interestedinthepenguin]

Ya know, I just had the feeling that he wasn't running linux...

[fuscia]

none. he uses OS X, i'm led to believe.

he, obviously, is easily led astray by eye candy.

[Interestedinthepenguin]

he, obviously, is easily led astray by eye candy.

[Pobega]

none. he uses OS X, i'm led to believe.

Is that true? If so I'm going to have to laugh, OSX is horrible.

[AndyCooll]

Those who saying he is using a Mac are slightly misleading. Torvalds points out that he is using Apple Mac hardware but obviously he's running Linux on it.

Torvalds switches to Apple

[kebes]

none. he uses OS X, i'm led to believe.

No, Linus uses Mac hardware, but he has Linux installed on it. The Mac hardware was donated to him so he accepted the gift. See news items:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/soa/Tor...9183867,00.htm
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../03/09/1314250


I have no idea what distro he uses... it's entirely possible that it's a custom build for his own purposes.

[Shin_Gouki2501]

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

wbr Shin Gouki

[kebes]

In an interview in May 2006:
http://www.thenetworkadministrator.c...20Torvalds.htm

Linus says that he constantly switches between distros. He mentions SUSE, yellowdog, Fedora... (no mention of Ubuntu!)

I do know that he much prefers KDE over Gnome:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usabi.../msg00021.html
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../12/13/1340215