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To: Panita who wrote (63376)	1/16/2000 4:06:00 PM
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Torvalds' employment at Transmeta has fueled speculation that the Crusoe processor will power devices running Linux, which is becoming an alternative to Windows for some computing applications, such running e-mail and Web site servers. ''You don't need Linus to do a Linux port,'' said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at the Linley Report in Mountain View, Calif. A port refers to software converted to run in a different computer environment. Gwennap said he believes Torvalds was hired by Ditzel because he is a renowned programmer and that his expertise was necessary to work on Transmeta's complex product designs, which place much of the chip's functions in the software instead of the hardware. But Linux is believed to be an important part of the strategy.