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Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

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A classic. People kept recommending it from 2012 to 2015.
Presented by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

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Linus Torvalds discusses Linux kernel development, the challenges of the Linux desktop, and famously criticizes Nvidia's lack of support.

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi on June 14, 2012. Linus was interviewed by Will Cardwell and followed with a Q&A session with the audience. Enjoy! Event producer Zaira Mammadova ( @iamzaira ) Video produced by Oneminstory {oneminstory.com/en} ---------- Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) aims at creating business success stories from the science and art within Aalto community, and working as a catalyst for elevating high ambition entrepreneurship from Finland and through the Baltic region. ace.aalto.fi/

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What people say. Famous for Linus Torvalds' blunt criticism of Nvidia and his insights into why Linux struggled to gain desktop market share.

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jcfreion Hacker News • 14 years agoRecommends

On “What killed the Linux desktop”

in a q&a round at aalto university in finland linus adressed the question why linux never took off on the desktop: the lack of being a pre-installed os. he mentions that without preinstalled operating systems there's now way to gain a significant market share in the desktop segment. the whole talk by itself is very recommendable: link to this video

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dmiladinovon Hacker News • 13 years agoRecommends

On “An Open Source Author's Lament”

I'd like to piggy-back on your mention of Linus. It reminds me of a recent video I saw wherein he talked about how the work on the kernel works within a natural hierarchy. The whole video, IMHO is worth a watch, but the relevant snippet is here, you can watch from about 15:57 to about 18:20 to get the idea: link to this video I especially liked his comment at the end of this section: "The way people work ... is inherent in our brains ... the whole development process ... works really well ... we used the hierarchy that just worked on its own, and that turns out to be the right hierarchy."

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mreilandon Hacker News • 10 years agoRecommends

On “Software development: do good manners matter?”

That's a caricature of his actual position, please be more honest than that. edit: Here's another video that does a better job of conveying his reasons for being the way he is. link to this video He's also been on record as saying multiple times that a lot of it is because he comes from a culture that's much more abrasive than US.

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SkyMarshalon Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

TLDR: Linus at a Q&A, a woman asks why Nvidia still isn't providing any support for Optimus on Linux, Linus responds that Nvidia is being really difficult about that without good reason and "Fuck You Nvidia!" (flicks off the camera). Her question actually starts a minute earlier than the link: link to this video PS - Bravo Linus. This is issue is a real PITA, and a bit incongruent considering the historically awesome driver support Nvidia has provided for Linux.

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bingbingon Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

Your link didn't quite work for me, starting in the 49th minute somewhere, Using a fragment identifier to demarc the time offset works better for me: link to this video

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kennywinkeron Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

if you skip ahead to 1:00:30 a guy in the audience who works at Nvidia responds during Q&A, ever so politely. Linus responds, quite politely as well. link to this video

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joferon Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

Linking to a specific time over 1 hour isn't working correctly for some reason, for whatever it's worth. (Or at least it hasn't been for me, anyway...) Nevermind, we were both just doing it wrong. This should work: link to this video

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AlexDangeron Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

Later in the talk someone says they are working for nVidia and doing something with Tegra. I couldnt quite make it out, what is he saying? link to this video

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flabbergastedon Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

I guess the moderators were offended by a four letter word. "People who get offended should be offended!" - Linus link to this video

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faragonon Hacker News • 14 years agoMentions

On “Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ”

Link to the source (Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds): link to this video I've found it while watching the video after the "fuck you nVidia" discussion: link Edit: Actual quote: "I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended" (without the "the" before "people").

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0xdeadbeefbabeon Hacker News • 12 years agoMentions

On “Google propels Linux to the top”

"obviously" is an understatement :) Linus counted android as a victory in this video where he swears at nvidia link to this video

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conistonwateron Hacker News • 12 years agoMentions

On “DebConf 2014's QA with Linus Torvalds [video]”

This is the part of that talk, I believe: link to this video I actually find his reasons quite convincing, I think he's got a point.

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oDoton Hacker News • 10 years agoMentions

On “Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust?”

While the post is fantastic in showing the pros/cons of the other languages, it doesn't talk about the advantages of C, advantages to some people at least. Here's Linus on replacing C: link to this video

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pmiloton Hacker News • 9 years agoMentions

On “The Safe C Library (2009)”

That's an unfair judgement toward the C development community as a whole. There are legitimate use cases for C. If you're writing low-level, bare-metal programs then there is no other portable programming language that offers better semantics. C programmers often laud that language because they can easily reason what the output of the compiler will be. That is an extremely important and rare property for a portable programming language. But hey, don't listen to me, listen to an actual experienced C programmer: link to this video

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icc97on Hacker News • 8 years agoMentions

On “All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux”

I remember Linus mentioning 0 about the major benefits of tuning Linux for super computers that came to be really useful for when trying to get performance out of a mobile phones decades later. 0: link to this video

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buth_likaon Hacker News • 8 years agoMentions

On “Linus Torvalds on regressions”

I agree.. people can be dishonest and hurtful while being perfectly polite, just like they can be honest, kind and caring while swearing like sailors. That is the difference that matters. When you ignore that and just look at the form, you get link Here's Linux talking about being straightforward, and why he cannot afford ambiguity: link to this video

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