This is breaking bad. This is big. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and a champion of free and open source software has finally call it a day and has agreed to join Microsoft as the project head of the upcoming Windows 9 project. According to Bloomberg, Linus will be working on a new Kernel design for Microsoft that will make, usually vulnerable, Windows OS virtually impossible to be infected by viruses and malware.

http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft/

Meh. I don't have a problem with it. Torvalds is a smart guy and if it helps MSFT, then it's good for both parties. We don't have to have Windows 9 suck to make Linux work.

http://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/mintcast_published/mintcast154.ogg

I think the guys from MintCast would agree with you. Windows tried to make their own version of Linux so turn about is fair play. I am running Lubuntu 13.04 with Gnome 3.8 and as you probably know Lubuntu comes with LXDE. It is amazing how Gnome Fallback under Gnome 3.6 is having problems but Gnome Classic under Gnome 3.8 works great. So I am running a Beta 2 OS with a Beta 2 desktop with a mainline Kernel 3.8.6 and it all still works.

Gnome 3.8 is Beta 2 PPA but it seems to working great!

Linus made 'the' operating system that Microsoft has tried hard to keep up with for years. I still use a couple of five year old laptops running a three year old version of Ultimate Edition without any problems. No grinding to a halt, no viruses, does everything I need them to. If Linus has gone to MS then good for him. Go where they pay the best but, just don't expect me or anyone else that want their free OS to suddenly start buying Windows. It is not customizable enough and is limited to running things only built for itself and often not backward compatible with earlier versions. How good is that for peeps that can't afford several hundred bucks every few years just to keep up to date. Linux does this already thanks to Linus and all for free. Just look at Android. How much better as success story do we need for promoting Linux and it is the only system to run on all computer platform types including tablets and smartphones.....

I doubt Linus Torvalds would work with sucksoft, he is still heavily involved with linux kernel development last I read.

Gnome 3.8 allows the old gnome??

Cool, been running arch for months, nice distro.

ya know I was thinking about this not too long ago...

Operating Systems such as Linux and UNIX often provide service ( A Server in Server Client Topology). For instance many Java programmers ( I program in Java ) tend to favor networked applications because of Java's networking functionality is more powerful then others ( hackers, server side processing for ftp, http and others).

On the other hand C/Microsoft languages such as C/C++/C# and VB .NET are most likely what Windows is written in. While Linux and UNIX are likely written in Java as those operating systems often ( especially for the 'not free' services) like Solaris (many java programmers use this OS ) for web development and other types of servers databases files ect..

I guess what you said in the original post for this post might be true because security is related to networking (Java has powerful networking capabilities.. like Gnutella clients Frost Wire and Lime wire are often written in Java as well as server side processing web applications such as the one this site is written in) .

However to mix languages in Java you use the keyword native when creating the method that executes the C code and I am not sure you can execute Java code within a C/C++ application although you might be able to I do not know.. but both get compiled to byte code in the end. So maybe if you just have the class files there to invoke it does not make a world of difference as long as a Java Runtime Environment is automatically installed with the OS.

Like just the other day I was wondering if Java Programmers are compatible with C/C++ type language programers for the exact same program such as a Windows Operating System.

Its fake.. Read it again and when it came out. Dang he is an Amiga user he hate Microsoft first and foremost.

No way not in this life time. Did anyone else notice that that article was posted on April the 1st

Doesn't Microsoft already have its own Linux distro?

I think it's called Ubuntu... you know, that one which was quite a great gateway distro for newbies until they started hiring from, partnering with and generally kissing the rear-end of Microsoft.

The result of this is a distro that has become the most bloated, resource demanding, gov-ware riddled (zeitgeist anyone?) and today, quite possibly the worst Linux distro known to man.

April fool joke or not, Torvalds doesn't have to move to the Microsoft camp for the OS to fall further into enemy hands, the most popular distro just has to become Windows-ish enough and all the progress the opensource community has made will be reversed to mean that only geeks use the OS and the mainstream variants/spin-offs will all look like Tizen, Jolla and Android.

You may have a point as Ubuntu forums got hacked.

This guy is a complete FOOL Unix was out way before Java even was a twinkle in anybodies eye Unix isnt made with Java and WIndows is made with vb.Dnt believe anything Mirage=FOOLTARD or his cronies say.