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Linus Torvalds collaborates with Linus Sebastian to build a custom Linux PC featuring AMD Threadripper 9960X, ECC memory, and Fedora. The conversation covers Torvalds' philosophy on hardware reliability, his development workflow, thoughts on AI and open source licensing, and why he prioritizes stability over bleeding-edge performance. Key insights include his stance on ECC memory as essential for trustworthy systems, his minimal code contribution to modern Linux despite creating it, and his perspective on fragmentation in the Linux ecosystem.

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

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Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

So much <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA&amp;t=2217s" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">this</a> exchange, at 36:57.
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36:57
There was a recent thing from a major tech company where uh developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote and if it wasn&#x27;t enough they were terminated. And there was someone here that was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity because Oh yeah.

37:14
Now you shouldn&#x27;t even be upset at that point. That&#x27;s just incompetence. Anybody who thinks that&#x27;s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.

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Just beautiful. From the BDFL himself.

likely the most important vid Linus ( short ) has made, this is a ton of fun

It does not seem they ever mention why he choose Intel over AMD flavor. It seems it was cut. I was kinda curious about the choice. Oh well.

really cool video i really enjoyed it