Jamie Zawinski Quotes

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.

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

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

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.

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

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.

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

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

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 remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

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

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.

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.

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!