Every weekend and mostly on Mondays I watch Linux Action Show, a youtube show that’s been around for about 6 years now. On the 200th episode, that aired on last Sunday 11 of March they had Richard Stallman “on board” for Interview.
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My Interview with Frostbite Media on iQunix OS
A few weeks ago I received an email request for interview, from Jonathan Nadeau of Frostbite Media. We talked about iQunix OS and how I got involved with Linux in general Continue reading
Rebel Code
Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution (2001). It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements with many interviews of all the notable hackers.
Rebel Code follows the progress of Linux and several other open-source projects (XFree86, Sendmail, Perl, Apache, Samba…) from the grandfather of Linux, Unix, in late sixties; then we follow the stories of Andrew Tannenbaum’s Minix system and Richard Stallman’s project GNU through the eighties, until we finally arrive to the beginnings of Linux in 1991. From then on, we follow it rise and blossom, with its added functionalities, with the first contributors to the kernel starting to appear, and then the first Linux distributions.
Amazon Product Description
“Open source” began as the mantra of a small group of idealistic hackers and has blossomed into the all-important slogan for progressive business and computing. This fast-moving narrative starts at ground zero, with the dramatic incubation of open-source software by Linux and its enigmatic creator, Linus Torvalds. With firsthand accounts, it describes how a motley group of programmers managed to shake up the computing universe and cause a radical shift in thinking for the post-Microsoft era. A powerful and engaging tale of innovation versus big business, Rebel Code chronicles the race to create and perfect open-source software, and provides the ideal perch from which to explore the changes that cyberculture has engendered in our society. Based on over fifty interviews with open-source protagonists such as Torvalds and open source guru Richard Stallman, Rebel Code captures the voice and the drama behind one of the most significant business trends in recent memory.
Mark Shuttleworth: "We are our own worst enemy"
In a recent interview at Golem.de , the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, points out some thoughts about the importance of working on creating a beautifully Linux. Also he talks about MacOS X as a paradigm of that and the problems of the Linux desktop today. Last but not least, he talks about Netbooks and the development status of Microsoft Windows 7
The video interview is in two parts of 6 minutes :
Linus Torvalds interview at computerworld.com
In January 22-2009 Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux OS, talks about the open source identity. He spoke about a host of topics
Linus Torvalds
including point releases, filesystems and what it is like switching to GNOME. He also puts Windows 7 in perspective. I would like to point some of them :
It’s 2009 and Linux development is approaching 20 years. How do you look back at the past two decades?
I feel like its very natural and I don’t think it will go away. I have a suspicion I will be doing this for a long time and there is no feeling of “it is done”. I don’t have a feeling to pass it on [maintenance of the Linux kernel], but I let the people I trust make the decisions. I can’t second-guess them as it wouldn’t work and I would waste a lot of people’s time. All the sub-maintainers sync their git trees with the main code and I check they haven’t done something horrible, but that’s rare.
