25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

Linux Journal’s very first issue featured an interview between LJ’s first Publisher, Robert Young (who went on to co-found Red Hat among other things), and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel). I’ve never really had a long-term plan for Linux, and I have taken things one day at a time rather than worry about something five or ten years down the line. Linus: We’ve gone through many many big rewrites of most of the subsystems over the years—not all at once, of course—and many pieces of code end up being things that nobody really wants to modify any more (most often because they are drivers for ancient hardware that very few people really use, but that we still support).

Source: www.linuxjournal.com