#linux

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. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#brought #commercialism #distribution #easy #good

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! ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#applications #beauty #code #course #cross-platform

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

— Linus Torvalds

#cd-rom #commercial #happy #hat #i

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. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#carry #connection #currently #drives #family

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

— Linus Torvalds

#even #linux #lot #made #materialistic

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

— Linus Torvalds

#good #like #linux #only #see

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#bad #because #best #great #great thing

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#actually #applications #extract #feel #going

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#hate #linux #microsoft #people

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. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#delivered #discourage #essence #however #impede