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The Two Linuses

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This 53-minute video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA> was
posted back in January, but I only discovered it more recently. In it,
Linux creator Linus Torvalds pays a visit to the offices of Linus
Sebastian (the brains behind the “Linus Tech Tips” YouTube channel),
while the latter builds the former a new custom PC to the former’s
requirements. With a 24-core, 48-thread CPU (great for kernel builds,
which is what Torvalds spends much of his work day doing), and 64GiB
worth of memory -- proper ECC memory (a long-time pet peeve of the
Linux man).

As the build progresses, they discuss many things, including questions
previously collected from the community, addressed to Linus T. Asked
which of his software “children” he is more fond of, Linux or Git,
Torvalds reveals that he only spent 6 months working on Git, before
passing it off to Junio Hamano, who has been the prime mover behind it
for the past 20 years.

(What, no mention of Subsurface?)

He also brought in one of the guitar-effects pedals that he has been
designing, purely as a hobby to unwind from his day job, with no
expectation that they will ever be useful to anybody, not even himself
(he doesn’t play guitar).

Which distro does he use? It turns out his current fave is Fedora,
because (unlike, say, Ubuntu) they make it easy for him to replace
their kernel with his custom, fresh-built ones.

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The Two Linuses Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-28 04:59 +0000

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