Linux Quotes

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.