Linus Torvalds Wins Intel InnovatiON Lifetime Achievement Award

[btarunr]

Intel commemorated Linux creator Linus Torvalds with the first Intel InnovatiON Lifetime Achievement Award. Torvalds needs little introduction, as he created the first successful Unix-like operating system that sparked off a community-led development effort toward the Linux of today, an OS that runs everything from servers and supercomputers, down to smartwatches. With Torvalds on stage, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger presented him with a signed copy of an Intel 80386 manual he authored—a book that played a role in Torvalds's understanding of the machine architecture and the development of code that would go on to become the Linux kernel. When asked by Gelsinger on how he envisions the next 20 years, Torvalds replied that he doesn't consider himself a visionary, and can't see past the next six months. He affirmed that the secret to the success of the Linux Kernel project is the shared responsibility of the community toward its development and maintenance.



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[Ferrum Master]

Still uses a Threadripper as main machine lol.

 

[thesmokingman]

That must be awkward...

 

[Deleted member 223428]

And he released version 5.19 of the kernel from a M2 powered MacBook running Linux. Dude's a savage.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Hey, at least they both got dressed up for the occasion.

 

[Jism]

Still uses a Threadripper as main machine lol.

TR is obviously a special use case. If you compile "alot" which can be extensive on linux, a Threadripper is your biggest friend.

 

[Ferrum Master]

TR is obviously a special use case. If you compile "alot" which can be extensive on linux, a Threadripper is your biggest friend.

Not that he cannot afford a similar Xeon build. It was his first AMD machine in decades.

 

[ZoneDymo]

AVX IS A POWER VIRUS!!! F U Nvidia!!.....wait where am I? an award? ermm great!

 

[Vayra86]

Weee marketing, Intel making its weekly quotum of 7 articles and at least 1 per day

 

[Valantar]

I guess that famous flipping-the-bird pic was directed towards Nvidia and not Intel, but, well, he's certainly not a huge fan ...

Linus Torvalds tears into Intel, favors AMD

Torvalds, Linux's creator, finds AMD's processors deliver a much bigger bang for the buck than Intel's CPUs.

www.zdnet.com

The root cause, according to Torvalds, was entirely about Intel's "misguided and arse-backward policy of 'consumers don't need ECC,' which made the market for ECC memory go away."

Still, Torvalds puts the lion's share of the responsibility on "Intel was pushing shit to consumers."

Would Torvalds consider going back to Intel-chip based workstations? That would be not just no, but hell no.

I guess we should be giving some credit to Intel for being at least somewhat principled about this?

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Weee marketing, Intel making its weekly quotum of 7 articles and at least 1 per day

No. Intel and Microsoft oddly contribute a metric ton to Linux constantly. They both make money off it in round about ways and love it.

 

[mechtech]

I wonder when Nvidia will give him an award??

 

[R-T-B]

AVX IS A POWER VIRUS!!!

He took issue with the product segmentation not the extensions themselves, IIRC.