FreeOS Interviews

Linux : Interviews : David Cantrell, Slackware developer
Posted: ( Mon 18th Dec 2000 07:05:02[AM] UTC )
David Cantrell is a core team member for the Slackware Linux Project. In this interview you will learn how David got his start working on Slackware linux, what his role as a Slackware developer is. He will explain his work on two new applications protopkg and autoslack, plus talk about various other topics of interest.

Linux : Interviews : Sam Palmisano, IBM President and COO
Posted: ( Thu 14th Dec 2000 06:21:50[PM] UTC )
"We decided to enable all of our hardware and server platforms, all of our middleware, around Linux. We have Freeway with Linux, and Shark...will roll out with Linux. From a hardware perspective all of our major e-business infrastructure offerings are Linux-enabled. If you look at our software, all of our middleware software--DB 2, WebSphere, Tivoli, etc.--is Linux-enabled. We're very encouraged by the progress."

BSD : Interviews : Paul Anderson, the BSD/OS product manager
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 06:48:39[PM] UTC )
As a small company, Anderson said, BSDi's engineers handled the security aspects of the software, but as the company became bigger, it often became assumed that someone else did it. Nevertheless, the security tradition continues: "In general, what we ship with our products contain the newest security patches."

Linux : Interviews : Charles Northrup, GNOME for Windows project
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 06:45:36[PM] UTC )
Recently, Global Technologies Ltd. Inc created something of a stir in the GNU/Linux community with a press release announcing their successful porting of the GNOME desktop environment to the Windows platform. In this interview, the CTO sheds a little more light on the reasons for the port as well as why GNOME was ported instead of KDE.

FreeOS : Interviews : Eric Raymond
Posted: ( Tue 12th Dec 2000 06:10:27[PM] UTC )
"I think Linux will become dominant before it is really ready technically for the end users. And the reason I believe that is because I now think that Microsoft monopoly is going to collapse ... in the near future."

Linux : Interviews : People behind KDE: Chris Schlaeger
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 11:09:38[PM] UTC )
I'm the maintainer of ksysguard (formerly known as ktop). I did some work on the core libraries, mostly kdeui, but now have very little time for this. Recently I have spend most of my time putting together the KDE League.

Linux : Interviews : Richard Stallman
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 10:05:03[PM] UTC )
I believe that it is good that companies can make money while respecting the freedom of computers users, and thus can pay programmers to develop free software. However the two companies that you mention [Red Hat, VA Linux] also distribute programs that are not free software. That is the only thing they do with which I do not agree.

Linux : Interviews : Matthew Szulik, CEO Red Hat
Posted: ( Mon 27th Nov 2000 05:04:55[PM] UTC )
Our business is highly corrosive in the proprietary-software marketplace and continues to have a long-lasting effect. When you think that we're fundamentally challenging a practice that's been in place for over 40 years, it lends support to my conclusion that what we're doing is quite radical.

Linux : Interviews : Eazel on down the road
Posted: ( Sat 25th Nov 2000 11:36:37[PM] UTC )
The next frontier for the open source software was usability. In almost every other dimension -- like robustness -- it had exceeded proprietary alternatives, but usability was lagging behind. This was not surprising, because it was a labor of love from a bunch of programmers who just weren't used to thinking of the mainstream end-user. Since my forte was usability, I thought perhaps I could make a difference.

Linux : Interviews : Userlocal.com interviews James Simmons
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Nov 2000 11:30:00[PM] UTC )
James Simmons is the creator and maintainer of linuxmafia.org (LM). LM has been around for about 3 years. Chances are that if you use slackware, you know about linuxmafia.org.

Linux : Interviews : Bob Young on community, criticism, and profit
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Nov 2000 06:34:47[PM] UTC )
In the second part of a two-part interview, Bob Young discusses the likelihood that Red Hat, which has not yet shown a profit, will continue funding programs like GNOME. He also says that individual members of the open source community have little in common, and draws contrasting pictures of himself and Eric Raymond.

Linux : Interviews : Ransom Love, Caldera CEO; David McCrabb, Caldera president
Posted: ( Tue 21st Nov 2000 04:40:26[PM] UTC )
If you look at Caldera, our whole focus has been on business, on how to make Linux a more viable comprehensive business solution. That's one of the reasons we acquired SCO. We intend to use Linux not just as a web server or a client workstation. We ask, how can we get Linux to be embraced by the entire business community and become a viable total alternative to the Microsoft environment?

Linux : Interviews : Sun warms up to Linux
Posted: ( Tue 21st Nov 2000 11:50:11[AM] UTC )
Herb Hinstorff, manager of Sun Microsystem’s Solaris Software Linux Program Office, talks about the company’s hot and cold relationship with Linux. He said his company thinks Linux is great but the operating system still has a long list of flaws, from virtual memory to journal file systems, that need to be fixed before it can be embraced wholeheartedly by enterprise users.

Linux : Interviews : Red Hat's Michael Tiemann: Linux is enterprise-ready
Posted: ( Mon 20th Nov 2000 12:39:09[PM] UTC )
The fact is that enterprises are already depending on Linux today. Even if Linux is not within their own walls, if they go from A to B on the Internet they're going to pass through an open source interface. The real question is what platform is best at doing the computing tasks that are needed to be done today. The answer from users would be 'Linux.'

Linux : Interviews : Linus on robots, fame and getting to 'yes' with 2.4
Posted: ( Thu 16th Nov 2000 08:29:20[PM] UTC )
But as I'm actively trying to get 2.4 out the door I usually answer 'that makes sense to me but let's wait til 2.5'. If say this patch triggers this bug and the machine does bad things and if I can see this patch won't hurt anything else, then these days I'm much happier. It's my job to be a judge of taste.