[yabai]

Wow! Linus is using a Macbook Air!

[muyuu]

Runs GNU/Linux on it too:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/4

[kzrdude]

It looks to me like he is using BIOS emulation on the mac, so he gets an IDE interface instead of using AHCI which I get on my efi-booted air.

[xxpor]

What would be the advantage of that, other than devo/testing purposes?

[kzrdude]

He's literally complaining that apple's firmware does not init the hardware properly. If he's using the legacy BIOS boot, that's a fair assessment of that mode, but it's still not the standard way to boot the computer.

[rmc]

I remember reading about his hardware set up a few years ago and yes, he was using apple hardware.

It's almost certainly running linux though.

[zdw]

For a while there he was running Linux on a PowerMac G5 tower as his primary desktop:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/12/13

Many open source OS projects have core developers on non-x86/amd64 platforms so as to find errors, x86isms, and other code quality issues reveled by fundamental differences in the underlying architectures.

[pimeys]

Well, in the picture I can clearly see a Gnome 3 desktop (with the default wallpaper).

[VMG]

the background is a gnome3 default though

[batista]

Yeah, and in the past had a Mac G5 for his home desktop. He run Linux on that.

And before that, he used an iBook running OS X to write his autobiography on MS Word (he said so in an interview).

[ruir]

That's interesting. Pitty I couldn't find a quote in my brief search. I'll try to find that interview later.

The bit that really caught my attention was this: "(...) Torvalds, who briefly moved Linux kernel development to GitHub last September following a security breach at its old home."

I must have been away when that happened.