Inilah tulisan linus ke MINIX newsgroup comp.os.minix ketika dia telah mencoding ulang MINIX agar bisa jalan di computer 386 (486) yang nantinya dikenal dengan Linux.
?I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.?
17 tahun kemudian ketika linux telah menjadi soul dari supercomputers sampai mobile phones dan beragam distro turunanya, maka dia memilih fedora core sebagai distronya, inilah petikan wawancara dengan Linus Torvalds
Which Linux distro do you use? ‘
Linus: ‘I’ve used different distributions over the years. Right now I happen to use Fedora 9 on most of the computers I have, which really boils down to the fact that Fedora had fairly good support for PowerPC back when I used that, so I grew used to it. But I actually don’t care too much about the distribution, as long as it makes it easy to install and keep reasonably up-to-date. I care about the kernel and a few programs, and the set of programs I really care about is actually fairly small.
And when it comes to distributions, ease of installation has actually been one of my main issues – I’m a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don’t want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be “overly technical” – like the ones that encourage you to compile your own programs etc.
Yeah, I can do it, but it kind of defeats the whole point of a distribution for me. So I like the ones that have a name of being easy to use. I’ve never used plain Debian, for example, but I like Ubuntu. And before Debian people attack me – yeah, I know, I know, it’s supposedly much simpler and easier to install these days. But it certainly didn’t use to be, so I never had any reason to go for it. ’