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25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds


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Linux Journal's very first issue featured an interview between LJ's first Publisher, Robert Young (who went on to co-found Red Hat among other things), and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel). After 25 years, we thought it'd be interesting to get the two of them together again. You can read that first interview from 1994 here.

 

Interview: Linus Torvalds and Robert Young

 

Robert Young: It is a great pleasure to have an excuse to reach out to you. How are you and your family? Your kids must be through college by now. Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing well. Our eldest, Zoe, who was 11 when Marc and I started Red Hat, is expecting her second child—meaning I'm a grandparent.

 

Linus Torvalds: None of my kids are actually done with college yet, although Patricia (oldest) will graduate this May. And Celeste (youngest) is in her senior year of high school, so we'll be empty-nesters in about six months.

 

All three are doing fine, and I suspect/hope it will be a few years until the grandparent thing happens.

 

Bob: When I first interviewed you back in 1994, did you think that you'd be still maintaining this thing in 2019?

 

Linus: I think that by 1994 I had already become surprised that my latest project hadn't just been another "do something interesting until it does everything I needed, and then find something else to do" project. Sure, it was fairly early in the development, but it had already been something that I had spent a few years on by then, and had already become something with its own life.

 

So I guess what I'm trying to say is not that I necessarily expected to do it for another few decades, but that it had already passed the bump of becoming something fairly big in my life. I've never really had a long-term plan for Linux, and I have taken things one day at a time rather than worry about something five or ten years down the line...................

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Hedon James

not sure of the distro, but I know he used to be a Gnome user. When Gnome underwent the transition to gtk3+, he had a rant and let it known he was going to XFCE. Don't know if he's still in that place, or came back around to Gnome3. I'd be willing to bet he's an Arch user.

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