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Microsoft Wants to Teach You How to Install Linux
I never thought I’d be leaning on Microsoft to teach me how to install Linux, but here we are. The Windows maker quietly published a support page with instructions on how to install Linux on, presumably, a machine that once used Windows. The Register caught on to the page’s existence and, honestly, the step-by-step is…
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Linux Founder Apparently Completes Empathy Journey In About A Month
Linux founder Linus Torvalds temporarily took time off from the organisation in September in order to “get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately”. During his helm within the open-source software community, he developed a reputation for his egregious verbal abuse. Now, about a month after his self-imposed send-off to better…
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Linus Torvalds Is Not Happy About Intel’s Meltdown And Spectre Mess
Famed Linux developer Linus Torvalds has some pretty harsh words for Intel on the fiasco over Meltdown and Spectre, the massive security flaws in modern processors that predominantly affect Intel products.
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Linus Torvalds: Mitt Romney Is ‘A F***ing Moron’
Is it me, or is Linus Torvalds turning into everyone’s favourite drunk uncle? The one that comes to any family gathering, drinks all the wine, slags off the hosts before throwing up in the bushes. It might just be me and my distorted perception of gatherings, but Linus is a laugh-riot when it comes to…