Swapnil Bhartiya, who runs the weblog TFIR, had an opportunity to interview Linus Torvalds at Open Supply Summit within the second half of August this yr. (Some context: The interview, which was printed this week, occurred earlier than Mr. Torvalds stated he must take a step again to mirror on how he has handled the group over time. Since then, we now have realized that Mr. Torvalds is returning to his place.) Within the wide-ranging interview, Mr. Torvalds has touched a wide-range of topics, together with formulating workarounds for the problematic {hardware} bugs (Meltdown, Spectre), and Chromebooks gaining traction (although it’s nonetheless not a machine that he might use for his work but). He additionally talked about firms gleaning quite a lot of knowledge about their customers, laws, (a tad little bit of politics), Linux group.
Greg Kroah-Hartman (aka Greg Ok-H) joined Mr. Bhartiya and Mr. Torvalds for the second half of the interview. On Sunday, Mr. Bhartiya printed an further interview of Mr. Kroah-Hartman.
