Interviews
This week we spent some time talking to Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon, and External Projects Developer Liaison Jorge Castro, about the Ubuntu community, Personal Package Archives, and where Linux is headed in 2008.
Richard M. Stallman, the Founding Father of Free Software, discusses the Free Software movement and its political philosophy.
Samba has been called Linux's stealth weapon -- the killer app that allows Linux to replace Windows file servers. Samba's creator, Andrew Tridgell, talks about the origins of Samba and the future of Open Source.
Don't call it the next Microsoft. If things go Bob Young's way, people will think of Red Hat as the Wal-Mart of the open source world.
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Novell chief talks about patent protection, meeting customers needs, and competing with Red Hat.
With MySQL 5 now widely available, the MySQL founder weighs in on the competition, the future of the MySQL database, and how to manage contributed code. Here’s ten questions with the co-founder and CTO of MySQL AB.
In this podcast, Ted Ts'o, the Linux Foundation's newly appointed Chief Platform Strategist, takes a few minutes to talk to Linux Magazine about his new role with the Linux Foundation, the status of Ext4, the Linux Standard Base, and more.
A published author and the executive in charge of
IBM’s Service Oriented Architecture and Websphere strategy,
Sandy Carter met with Linux Magazineto discuss how SOA can solve
immediate business problems and form the foundation of flexible,
responsive information technology infrastructure.
2.6 is coming, and Andrew Morton, a modest, humble, approachable, and very capable system software developer is leading the charge. Hand-picked by Linus Torvalds for the task, Morton talks about the next production kernel, the kernel development process, and what would happen if SCO won its case against IBM.
With over two million downloads in 2002, JBoss is arguably the de facto standard for deploying Java-based Web applications. With its advanced features, microkernel architecture, full implementation of the J2EE stack, and an unbeatable price (it's free, available as source code released under the Lesser Gnu Public License), JBoss -- like Linux and Apache -- has been widely adopted by developers and corporate IT departments.
He may be benevolent and he may be delegating more work, but the Linux kernel remains Linus's project.
Linux and Open Source have become a key part of Hewlett-Packard's market strategy. HP's chairman, Carly Fiorina, tells us why.
Jabber stands on the brink of becoming a general-purpose mechanism for allowing people, devices, and programs to interact. How will it play with .NET? Jeremie Miller, Jabber's inventor, offers his thoughts.
Bruce Perens is one of Linux's most visible evangelists. Here he shares his views on everything from open source challenges HP faces to the danger the term Open Source poses to Free Software.
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