linux-kernel - Re: What computer do Linus and other prominent kernel developers have?

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Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:06:18 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What computer do Linus and other prominent kernel developers
 have?

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