[Ti] Re: End of PPC, what about Linus Torvalds ?

[Timothy Luoma]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Ondra Soukup wrote:

> As I read somewhere that he can't test some x86 related feature in  
> kernel, because his main development machine right now is Powermac G5.

http://news.com.com/2102-1003_3-5606030.html?tag=st.util.print

Linus wrote:  "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka  
PowerPC 970)--it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it  
obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any  
more ;)" he wrote.

of course all the news agencies made big headlines out of "Linux  
inventor moves to Apple" which was true in only the most technical,  
literal sense.  "Linux inventor moves to PowerPC" would have been  
more accurate but less attention-grabbing.

TjL