Re: What computer do Linus and other prominent kernel developershave?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 14:58:19 EST


On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:28:01 +0200
"Fred ." <eldmannen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What exact computer hardware components do Linus Torvalds have in his
> computer system?
> Also other prominent kernel developers like Alan Cox, etc.
>
> If want to buy same motherboard, CPU, GPU, HDD, etc.
>
> That way, I know there wont be any problems running Linux, because if
> I have that problem,
> then he will also have that problem.
> If he have that problem, he will surely fix it.

It's certainly generally true that the most common hardware is best
maintained - I wouldn't however try to clone my hardware setup - parts of
it are there *because* it doesn't work well in Linux !

Alan
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