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

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:33:16 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	"Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What computer do Linus and other prominent kernel developers
 have?

Fred . 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.
> 
I suspect that developers are unlikely to be running any hardware you can 
duplicate, and if they are anything like me they will change hardware regularly 
for one reason or another, to test something, have fun using something, or 
because some part of a system was redeployed.

> 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.

Wouldn't bet on that, either, usage controls which bugs you see to some extent. 
Get something common.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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