Torvalds: Solaris? Nothing http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/special/0,2000064597,20095149,00.htm CNET News Zone: Stephen Shankland 22/12004 Friendly Print Email Article Successfully Combined with Friends After creating Linux, the style volunteer has created the most serious work system. It is a Solaris that is Shengyang. Now, Torvalds and allies have to face new competition in this old opponent. Shengyang has decided to turn Solaris into an open original code plan, and vigorously advocate deployment on widely used X86 processors (such as Intel Xeon). However, the 34-year-old Finnish code designer not only didn't move, but even a lot of Solaris, called a large "joke". Torvald has been served for many years, and now I decided to continue to stay at the open source development labs (Open Original Code Development Lab) at the new employer. He is jointly dominant to the colleague Andrew Morton, that is, intensively updates the Linux 2.6 core version, not a major revision of the month. Such results can make updates more rapid. Torvalds talk about Solaris, his impromptu writing style in an interview. Solaris 10 of Shengyang decided to open the original code and used it on x86 wafer, what is your opinion? My attitude towards Shengyang is "listening to his words, watching its line". They have too many words, I have to see what they have actual action. Shengyang's action has also been made a lot, such as the X86 version is also resurrected, and several good new features have been added in the Solaris 10 beta, they also desperately draw developers and software companies, they also announce the X86 platform Solaris 10 can be obtained for free. How do you think about this X86 platform move with Solaris new features? Solaris / x86 can only be said to be a joke, according to I know, its hardware support is not good. If you complain that the Linux driver support is too small, you may wish to try Solaris / X86. IBM's Steve Mills once said that Linux development blueprint is an eight-channel high-speed highway: as long as you refer to UNIX, you know how Linux is going. Will Linux take your own way? Is it just a UNIX technology? I believe in the concept of market verification, if I want to worship, I will say that I am Newton, except that he is the most influential scientist, more importantly, he has a thousand people: "If I am Others have seen farther, then because I stand on the giant's shoulder list. "Newton is actually not a person who is easy to get along, but this sentence is in the scientific essence. The same is true for open raw code. The focus is that we are all standing on the giant's shoulder list, then improve the ideas or concepts of others. If you emphasize yourself to invent new things, in my opinion, it is a super stupid plus ambition. The reason why Linux has today is precisely because we will not wipe someone else's technology, unlike many places to think that they have more, this "Not Invented Here, referred to as NIH) is actually a pathological state. Do you think the outside world is the most misunderstanding of Linux? I won't be so easy to be angry, so there is no thing that I will talk about special gas, but the outside world is very interesting. I think that I can let the whole market will turn over the market alone, this misunderstanding is actually non-off. Linux, even the IT industry, some people always think that the success of things is because some people have especially vision, so they have today's results.
Everyone seems to believe this statement, this is actually a kind of vanity. I always have to explain with outsiders, I have not controlled Linux development, which is only because of this environment, not because a certain leader is too powerful. No matter what super great coach or what spiritual master is actually the same. This greatness, I feel that I have a lot of fake, but what's more, you have a considerable influence on Linux, and Linux has a huge impact on the operator industry, you will be more modest because Linux? Still more feeling? I didn't have a sense of mission before, but I won't be more modest because Linux. I am more involved in how the wind calls raincarates doctors have a big connection with the environmental changes in him, although this will not make me become modest, but at least let me be more down. I am not saying that individuals are not important, and individuals are actually very important, and I believe that the smart people can do more than one hundred times more. But more importantly, you have to have an appropriate environment to make people glow, and Linux's biggest achievement is to let people be lit. When you launch the open original code version of Solaris, will you take a study? Maybe it may not, don't say that I have any enemy, but because I don't have that time, I am not interested. Linux never wants to compete with others, we are all compared to themselves, so I am not interested in Solaris. If it really has any excellent, others will tell me. You just didn't say that we all stood on the shoulders of the giant? Then Solaris should also have a mirror, why do you want to see it? I have learned from UNIX principles, I don't think they have any discussion. No matter which direction is compared, now Linux is slightly better. But more importantly, even if I have a mistake, there is always a real understanding of Solaris, which will tell me where the other's benefits, why should I personally go to know? Assuming a few years later, all other UNIX versions were smashed by Linux, where did your inspiration come from? I never lack the inspiration. These inspirations are not from other systems, but from users. Users often don't say "Unix can do this, how can Linux don't work?" Yunyun. Generally I often hear: "I hope to have a certain function, but I can't find", or "although I can do this, it is not very ideal". Our inspiration comes from this. How is your long short-term plan allocated? You seem to be the kind of comparative, instead of planning for five years? Yes, I don't have that great planning skill. My long-term plan is very intuitive conceptual, and I can't write a copy of the card. Some people think that this is very guiding principle, yes, this is, we are very flexible, we will not ignore the problem that should be solved in front of him because of the five years of things. I think there is a kind of great idea, but it is also very terrible. I am most often talking about, we have no Hong Tu Jig, we only focus on small improvement, as for small improvements will set off a big revolution. Do you think there is no great ideal of Richard Stallman, GNU plans or even the GPL used by Linux can be implemented? It's like it is still possible, but this seems to say "if a certain great person, how will the world going?" The world will be different, I don't deny that there is a vision that will make people have powerful power. Similarly, you can ask, if there is no me, what will linux going? I am not touched by myself, but who knows maybe BSD is going, or another college student has written another operating system.
