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Oh, Transmeta. Back in the heyday of Slashdot, Transmeta had a massive cult following for many months before the product was even released. I remember the dissapointment when they did finally ship. My dad bought one of the little Sony laptops with their proc and it was a dog (although power-efficient).


That was because Linus Torvalds did a keynote speech with live streaming when he was employed there, he was pretty stoked himself.

The only detail I remember from it was :

"Linus, what Linux distribution do you use?"

"Debian, of course"

I wonder if he still uses that on his Mac Book Air


Whenever one of the most well known open source technologists joins a (pretty secretive) firm, it's going to generate interest and speculation.

Also remember John Carmack joining Intel to work on Larrabee.


Maybe you're thinking of Michael Abrash.




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