Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.