6 Linus Torvalds Quotes on Hardware

Linus Torvalds quotes on hardware

6. Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

24. Personally, I'm _not_ interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

29. 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.

41. The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at _any_ point pretty damn ugly.

50. EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

70. The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.