#linux

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#android #because #between #common #component

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#definitely #did #ever #i #linux

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#because #been #collaboration #desktop #ditch

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#fact #free #linux #lot #momentum

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#become #big #deployments #linux #manage

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux. ↗

— Bill Hayden

#available #linux #standard #works

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#been #cheap #hacks #happens #just

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#casually #completely #coordinating #different #different way

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#cancer #everything #intellectual #intellectual property #itself

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#always #been #customers #developers #important