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Linus Torvalds’s home office tour is a 2014 look at his workspace, desk habits and what he does between Linux kernel releases. The Linux Foundation’s feature highlights a “zombie shuffling desk”—its own description for a walking desk—but the accompanying article text does not identify the desk’s make or model.
What the 2014 tour covers
The Linux Foundation published its feature on 17 July 2014 as a personal tour of Torvalds’s home office. It describes behind-the-scenes footage and says the tour looks at what he keeps on his desk and what he does between kernel releases. Read the Linux Foundation feature.
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Linux.com published a corresponding article by Jennifer Cloer on the same date and embeds the tour video. Read the Linux.com article.
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What is the “zombie shuffling desk”?
The Linux Foundation uses “zombie shuffling desk” as a playful name for Torvalds’s walking desk, saying he demonstrates how he uses it while working. “Walking desk” is the detail the publisher supplies; the available article text does not establish a specific configuration.
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If you want to look for similar equipment, search for walking desks. “Treadmill desk” can be a useful shopping-search term, but the source does not confirm that Torvalds’s desk is a treadmill model or identify a brand, model, specifications, accessories or price.
What the feature does not establish
This is an archival 2014 profile, not a current inventory of Torvalds’s workspace. The two article pages provide or reference an embedded video, but the available text does not include a transcript. It therefore does not support attributing spoken quotations to Torvalds or adding details about equipment beyond the walking desk description.
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