FreeOS Interviews

Linux : Interviews : Sun sees big future for NFS v.4 in Linux
Posted: ( Wed 10th Jan 2001 02:10:04[AM] UTC )
"I think there’s a fear of Sun "strong-arming" the development process. Because of that, we’ve deliberately been hands-off. For example, rather than doing all the development in house we’ve funded the University of Michigan Center for Information Technology Integration's work on NFS version 4. Their work was not controlled by Sun."

FreeOS : Interviews : NuSphere pushes MySQL closer to enterprise
Posted: ( Wed 10th Jan 2001 02:07:43[AM] UTC )
An open source database called MySQL is quickly emerging as a cheap, yet highly functional, alternative to proprietary databases offered by major vendors such as Oracle and Informix. Yet, many in the IT world are still unaware of exactly what MySQL is and how it compares to other existing database technologies. D. Britt Johnston, CTO of NuSphere, a Massachusetts company that sells its own MySQL version, helps shed some light on the technology in this interview.

FreeOS : Interviews : Mr. Wook's tireless love of work and life
Posted: ( Tue 9th Jan 2001 07:04:27[PM] UTC )
Currently vice president of engineering at Metapa, an infrastructure service provider with an office in Los Angeles, Wook has deployed a number of Open Source programs, not least among them, Linux, MySQL and gcc. Previously, as director of (digital) engineering for effects house Digital Domain, he helped bring Linux to prominence by choosing it as a tool in manufacturing the spectacular effects in such big-screen blockbusters as James Cameron's epic, Titanic.

NetBSD : Interviews : How NetBSD 1.5 was born
Posted: ( Mon 8th Jan 2001 10:16:04[PM] UTC )
"NetBSD's biggest release impediment is also its most important feature: we released 1.5 on 10 base CPU types comprising 20 groups of hardware architectures. Taking in to account I/O buses, MMUs, and system controllers that another OS would consider to be different platforms, the actual number of specific hardware platforms is somewhere closer to 40 ... NetBSD runs on more hardware platforms than any other full-featured OS in history."

BSD : Interviews : A roundtable on BSD, security, and quality
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:00:31[PM] UTC )
Theo deRaadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, and Werner Losh, discuss several topics, including the evolving distinction between Linux and BSD and the notion that reliability and security are achieved through simplicity.

Linux : Interviews : Linus: Partying hard over Linux 2.4
Posted: ( Sat 6th Jan 2001 12:58:23[AM] UTC )
"With questions like that, how are you ever going to write an interesting article? 'Is Linux an even more viable contender ... ?' What do you expect me to say? Give you the standard boring press-release about how we're changing the world, how we've innovated more things than those ancient Chinese dynasties with their gunpowder thing, and how everybody and their pets are going to live happily ever after thanks to the new release?"

Linux : Interviews : Jason Haas on LinuxPPC -- and Drunk Drivers
Posted: ( Fri 5th Jan 2001 09:30:21[PM] UTC )
"Franz Sirl, a Linux/PowerPC developer, has done a lot of work on optimizing GCC for PPC. Look at PPC vs. x86 benchmarks. Theoretically, PowerPC kicks x86's butt, but if things aren't optimized for it (as often happens in this x86 world), it may not seem like such a hot processor."

Linux : Interviews : Ransom Love, Caldera CEO
Posted: ( Fri 5th Jan 2001 09:26:28[PM] UTC )
"In particular, within Linux, significant consolidation will take place in the Linux base as Linux and the market mature. I think you are going to see it come down to two, possibly three, players who are the predominant players in Linux on a global basis."

Linux : Interviews : Cyber attacks prove costly
Posted: ( Thu 4th Jan 2001 05:58:19[PM] UTC )
A group of security experts who manage major Open Source Web sites talk about the networking side of their sites, and also the security problems that arise.

Linux : Interviews : Bruce Perens, HP
Posted: ( Thu 4th Jan 2001 02:10:00[AM] UTC )
Hewlett-Packard's open source strategy was hard to get a handle on in 2000 -- but HP closed the year out by hiring none other than Bruce Perens, the man "who first announced 'open source' to world." Talk with Cameron Laird and HP's newly minted "strategic advisor for Linux and open source initiatives." Interview runs January 3-5.

Linux : Interviews : EGrail fills Linux content management gap
Posted: ( Tue 2nd Jan 2001 11:52:10[PM] UTC )
Making open source content management software that can be used by regular, non-technical people is eGrail's mission. So is making money. The two goals do not have to be mutually exclusive, said Al Brown, CTO of eGrail, an Internet infrastructure software product and services company.

Linux : Interviews : 10 questions with Miguel de Icaza
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 09:21:02[PM] UTC )
"Red Carpet and the Helix Setup Tools are our two major user visible projects to be released in Q1. Many other improvements we do to the desktop goes directly into the core GNOME system or goes directly to the maintainers of the various packages."

Linux : Interviews : Mark Cathcart, Technology strategist with IBM; Member of the S/390 Software Development Council
Posted: ( Sun 31st Dec 2000 08:57:15[PM] UTC )
"[With Unix applications],we found that most software vendors weren't willing to make major alterations to their applications. But it's much easier with Linux. It’s like a duck to water. You get nothing more or less but just Linux running on S/390 hardware. The lure of Linux is the speed applications can be deployed. We could never deploy them fast enough for zOS."

Linux : Interviews : Leaping Linux: IBM's z900 takes it on
Posted: ( Fri 22nd Dec 2000 07:36:33[PM] UTC )
Mark Cathcart, a technology strategist with IBM and a member of the S/390 Software Development Council talks about IBM’s strategy behind Linux on the z900 and if he thinks Linux can really take this age-old platform into the world of open-systems.

FreeOS : Interviews : Steve Giles: Co-founder OpenNMS.org project
Posted: ( Wed 20th Dec 2000 02:57:56[AM] UTC )
The 0.4.0 interim release of OpenNMS is a warning shot. The new open source systems management solution puts the commercial systems management software market on the spot. It asks big vendors such Hewlett-Packard and Computer Associates a tough question: Can proprietary software keep pace with advances in technology as well as open source software can?