A high school student in Oregon, named Anthony Q, interviewed Linus Torvalds recently. No real breaking news, but considering the number of interview requests he must get I think its uber cool that he made time for a high school student and his school paper.
Speaking of which I really wish Milken would get their act together and start publishing The Roar online again. Josh and I spent way too many weeks in high school developing their CMS software for them to just stop using it.
IT Garage wonders if the x86 transition might be beneficial to OS X in the home user market. My hope is that adding another x86 platform might cause vendors to release more information about their hardware so Linux and other OSS drivers might have better access to drivers.
I think their right on about the change part though. Hopefully, it will cause vendors to open more of their standards so that they can the move will be easier. (Its pretty easy already). Once people get used to dealing with change more often theyll likely be less hesetant. Thats why geeks are able to switch from Linux to OS X to Windows or whatever several times a day.
Most users haven’t learned this skill because they’ve only had access to one operating system in their day to day lives.
