Linux Interviews

Linux : Interviews : An Interview with Jeff Dike
Posted: ( Wed 14th Jun 2006 04:42:27[PM] UTC )
Jeff Dike is the creator and maintainer of User Mode Linux (UML) - a virtual machine which runs on Linux. In recent times, UML has gained a lot of significance after Linus Torvalds incorporated the UML patch into the official Linux kernel source tree.

Linux : Interviews : SuSE CTO: Novell gives Linux 'muscle'
Posted: ( Mon 31st May 2004 05:19:58[PM] UTC )
Novell Inc. is banking its re-entry into the consciousness of IT shops on Linux. Through its acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE Linux AG last year, Novell is working hard to regain its stature as a major technology player. In this interview, SuSE chief technology officer Juergen Geck touches on Novell's Linux strategy, starting with its recent release of the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) management tool to open source, his thoughts on back-porting features from the 2.6 kernel and SuSE's product road map for the rest of 2004.

Linux : Interviews : Linux For Everyone: From Servers To Desktops
Posted: ( Mon 31st May 2004 05:19:58[PM] UTC )
With a stream of Linux based desktop alternatives flooding the market, the battle against software giant Microsoft has reached higher ground. The latest entrant, a company called Everyone's Linux (ELX), is all set to launch its product range in India, with a radically different mantra - "If you cant beat them with innovation, ape them." Interestingly, the Hyderabad based company has recently appointed ex-SCO employee Manojit Majumdar to spearhead its sales effort in the country.

Linux : Interviews : Ransom Love, Co-founder of Caldera and SCO, Speaks of Unix, GPL and the Lawsuit
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Oct 2003 04:56:09[PM] UTC )
Love, who was Caldera CEO during its acquisition of SCO and the contested Unix source code, expressed displeasure over the current developments from his former company.

Linux : Interviews : McNealy Weighs In on Linux, Unix, Sun
Posted: ( Mon 4th Aug 2003 11:26:02[AM] UTC )
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy is no stranger to technology cycles. In the 21 years of Sun's existence, the Santa Clara, Calif., company has been at the top and bottom and in the middle of several. In this one-on-one interview with eWEEK Editor in Chief Eric Lundquist, McNealy answers questions about Linux, Unix and the future direction of the company.

Linux : Interviews : Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jun 2003 05:41:12[AM] UTC )
OSNews features a 4-page interview with Nat Friedman, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Product Development at Ximian. They discuss a lot of interesting topics, ranging from Ximian's products, to Apple, to Linux on the desktop and much more.

Linux : Interviews : Red Hat's Tiemann: Architectural vision must be 20/20
Posted: ( Fri 16th May 2003 05:00:53[AM] UTC )
In this interview, Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann talks about the importance of system and network architecture, and he explains how Linux and open-source enable cost savings and innovation. Tiemann also reacts to the SCO-IBM lawsuit, AMD's new 64-bit Opteron processor and UnitedLinux.

Linux : Interviews : Shawn Gordon, President/CEO of theKompany.com
Posted: ( Mon 9th Jul 2001 07:52:50[PM] UTC )
"Originally I was going to support KDE and GNOME, I didn't have an opinion one way or another and I thought it would be a good idea. However after looking at the state of both projects, how they were built and where they were headed, KDE just made a lot more sense. The infrastructure was very intelligently designed and allowed us to be extremely productive."

Linux : Interviews : GnuCash developer Robert Merkel
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jul 2001 07:53:09[PM] UTC )
"Everything we do with GnuCash is aimed at making it competitive (ultimately, superior) to Quicken and other products. We want our program to be people's choice because it's the best available, not just because it's free (in both senses). Quicken is still ahead of GnuCash in many areas, and as you point out, sometimes closed-source companies have big advantages."

Linux : Interviews : Red Hat European VP Colin Tenwick on their new database
Posted: ( Wed 4th Jul 2001 09:37:21[PM] UTC )
"The economics of the Red Hat Database quite simply make a lot of sense. We offer a very low total cost of ownership, an open source GPL and a subscription model that makes the price package very reasonable indeed. We estimate that we will coming in at around 25% of the cost of proprietary solution and that gives organisations a very attractive, cost effective, route into open source."

Linux : Interviews : An interview with Linus Torvalds
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jul 2001 07:31:07[PM] UTC )
"When Linux started off, it was for technical people, and it wasn't even just for technical people, it was for the technologists of the technologists. You would not have enjoyed using the system in '91 unless you were really passionate about computers and you really knew how they worked very low down, and you were willing to do a lot of work to actually install the system -- and do all the work, compile it for your machine."

Linux : Interviews : Talk with Richard M. Stallman
Posted: ( Wed 13th Jun 2001 10:14:57[PM] UTC )
OpenOffice.org interviews Richard Stallman on a variety of topics, including his conception of an ethical society and the place of business in that society.

Linux : Interviews : A talk with Jim Gettys
Posted: ( Tue 12th Jun 2001 09:31:40[PM] UTC )
Christian F.K. Schaller interviews Jim Gettys, one of the original X Window developers. The discussion ranges from Gettys' role on the GNOME Foundation to the need for a good audio server. A large part of talk revolves on the use of X on handhelds as opposed to framebuffers, why X isn't as bloated as many claim, and why a network-transparent foundation makes sense for the GUI's of tomorrow's handhelds.

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.