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by zdw 5234 days ago
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.