Top 148 Linux Quotes & Sayings

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

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.

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.

I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

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.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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

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

There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

We can build a better product than Linux.

In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

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.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Linux doesn't have IP roots.

In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

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.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Microsoft loves Linux.

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

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.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

It's been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android - the most successful mobile Linux distribution - that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

There are a lot of people whove 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.

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

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

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