FreeOS Interviews

Linux : Interviews : Four questions to Sven Neumann about the futur of the Gimp
Posted: ( Wed 9th May 2001 11:11:57[PM] UTC )
In a brief but useful interview, GIMP developer Sven Neuman, discusses the upcoming GIMP 1.4 release, plans for version 2.0, CMYK support, and the issue of integrating the GIMP more closely with GNOME.

Linux : Interviews : Jekyll & Hyde: Linux or Windows 2000?
Posted: ( Tue 8th May 2001 11:28:31[PM] UTC )
The process of choosing a platform has become more interesting since the introduction of Linux. Windows 2000 now seems to have some serious competition—or does it? How are companies making the choice between Windows 2000 and Linux? Here, Kenneth "Kenbo" Brunsen (representing Linux) and Joe Linehan (representing Windows 2000) discuss the major differences and similarities between the two platforms, the way Domino works with both systems, and the Domino/Windows 2000 and Domino/Linux plans for Rnext, the code name for the next major release of Notes/Domino.

Linux : Interviews : 10 questions to Olivier Fourdan (an XFce update)
Posted: ( Wed 2nd May 2001 09:55:40[PM] UTC )
Olivier Fourdan is the primary developer behind XFCE, which has been referred to as "the third desktop environment." It cleaves closely to CDE in terms of interface, and it's designed to work well with GNOME/GTk+. In this interview, we get a little insight into Olivier's work with GNOME interoperability and whether XFCE is "just a CDE clone."

Linux : Interviews : Interview with the Simputer team
Posted: ( Thu 26th Apr 2001 09:07:45[PM] UTC )
Swami Manohar and the members of the Simputer development team in an interview with Open Collector spoke on topics like Linux in India, the workings of the first legally approved gpl-based license for hardware designs, how to make a popular computer for rural communities, motivation for the design, and the novel IML(Information Markup Language).

Linux : Interviews : People behind KDE: Richard Moore
Posted: ( Tue 24th Apr 2001 03:05:29[AM] UTC )
Tink interviews Richard Moore, a KDE developer whose claim to fame is Java applet support for Konqueror

Linux : Interviews : Eazel making its way forward in a sea of change
Posted: ( Sun 1st Apr 2001 10:59:11[PM] UTC )
Eazel's entry into the Linux scene was widely applauded and their work on Nautilus has been greatly anticipated. So the downturn came as a big shock to those inside and outside of Eazel. During all this difficult process of change, Nautilus 1.0 was released. In an interview, Bart Decrem, Darin Adler, Ken Kocienda and Maciej Stachowiak talk about the ups and downs and Eazel's future plans.

Linux : Interviews : Linux VPNs cheap and easy
Posted: ( Wed 21st Mar 2001 05:47:43[PM] UTC )
What are the benefits of Linux-based Virtual Private Networks? Get the scoop from Dave Kelly, strategic marketing vice president for VPN provider OpenReach. Kelly also spills the beans on his company's new deal with Penguin Computing, which will sell its systems with OpenReach preinstalled.

Linux : Interviews : Certification saves companies time and money
Posted: ( Wed 21st Mar 2001 05:47:43[PM] UTC )
"In the next couple of years, there's going to be skyrocketing demand for Linux professionals." So says Tobin Maginnis president of Sair Linux & GNU Certification. In this story, he explains why it's a good idea to get certified on Linux.

Linux : Interviews : The Berlin Project: Interview with lead developer Stefan Seefeld
Posted: ( Mon 19th Mar 2001 09:43:38[PM] UTC )
The core of the Unix GUI has for many years been X. Stefan Seefeld is the leader of the Berlin Project, which most people refer to when alternatives to X are being discussed. Here, he elaborates on what many feel could pose a serious challenge to X's dominance of the Unix desktop.

Linux : Interviews : Linux guru touts operating system for business use
Posted: ( Mon 19th Mar 2001 07:29:48[PM] UTC )
"Technicians in the inner sanctums of corporate computing are finding ways to use open source, even when IT managers don't know it's being done. The only thing management ever notices is they stop having downtime," says Eric Raymond as he talks about Linux in today's busines markets.

Linux : Interviews : Businesses catching on to Linux, IBM says
Posted: ( Wed 14th Mar 2001 01:16:22[AM] UTC )
"Who could have imagined the revolutionary capabilities that came about when the industry embraced Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or Web standards? From an application development perspective, Linux can have that same power." So says IBM eServer exec Susan Whitney.

Linux : Interviews : One-on-one with the GStreamer developers
Posted: ( Thu 1st Mar 2001 09:31:48[PM] UTC )
In conversation with Bastien Nocera, Wim Taymans and Erik, the GStreamer developers, talk about the "magic" of GStreamer, how different it is from other multimedia frameworks available for Linux, the new release, the different applications that can be based on it and their future plans.

Linux : Interviews : IBM working to make Linux work
Posted: ( Tue 27th Feb 2001 06:27:33[PM] UTC )
IBM is trying to sell Linux to four focus markets: retail, small- to medium-sized businesses which find the price is right, telecommunications companies, which cluster racks of Linux-based servers together, and financial companies, which can consolidate hundreds of Unix servers onto a single mainframe, said Scott Handy, director of Linux solutions marketing for the company's software group.

Linux : Interviews : Mount Linux: Management by subscription
Posted: ( Tue 27th Feb 2001 06:27:33[PM] UTC )
When Aaron J. Seigo, CEO of Mount Linux in Calgary, Alberta, and his partners looked at how to make a profit in the new open source economy, they decided the answer was to provide a service, not a product. So they came up with a suite of automated services targeted at system administration, an ongoing daily task for which businesses have a budget. So far their strategy seems to work.

Linux : Interviews : The struggle for the future of Linux; Miguel de Icaza, Ximian CTO
Posted: ( Mon 26th Feb 2001 05:47:46[PM] UTC )
"If anything, I'd like everybody to switch over to Gnome and start developing Gnome--if anything because I think that our component architecture is sweet, that we're addressing a major problem in the Linux platform, which is lack of a component architecture. On the other hand, I guess people like the fact that two desktops are competing."