[ Thanks to John
Lasser for this link. ]
“This interview was held over the weekend of March 25 in Austin,
Texas. Present at the interview were our fearless leaders, Linus
Torvalds, and Alan Cox, the number one and two men in the Linux
hierarchy, and me, freelance journalist with nothing to lose and
everything to gain.”
“I played a heavy payback card to get a friend at IBM to do the
introductions and let me take Torvalds and Cox to lunch. They were
in Austin to be given a live demonstration of the IBM RS/6000
running LINUX at a ceremony in their honor. There were rumors
floating around about the direction of Linux and the real reason
these two were coming to the IBM campus – and it had nothing to do
with Linux running on big iron…”
“(C) Clifford: So. What kinds of userland changes you referred
to a minute ago in the car, uh – what kinds of enhancements have
you made for the upcoming release?
(LT) Linus Torvalds: Well. We talked a lot about – em – Alan and
I talked a lot about the things that were keeping Linux from really
taking over the desktop – not the things he and I usually talk
about – in the kernel space – but in the actual user functionality,
and we decided to go back to the beginning, as it were – back to
the earliest utilities that were available for the majority of the
computer users out there.
(AC)Alan Cox: (To the waitress) I had the bangers – the sausage,
uh – and……you know, this doesn’t taste like beer much. You got
any Guinness?”