Linux Interviews

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.

Linux : Interviews : Bob Young on Red Hat's origins
Posted: ( Wed 15th Nov 2000 05:38:54[PM] UTC )
Red Hat got started, well, legally, we got started in March of '93, when I quit my day job and went to work in my wife's sewing closet trying to make a living. And I was doing a bunch of things at that time, but one of them was selling free software. I was publishing a newsletter called New York Unix.

Linux : Interviews : Erik Troan: VP Product Engineering
Posted: ( Tue 14th Nov 2000 08:25:51[PM] UTC )
Alliances have always been a key part of Red Hat's strategy. We believe in building relationships around open source and our services, and we have partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry in order to bring their resources and credibility to open source.