Charles Stross Quotes

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

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.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.