Ask New 2.4 Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Anything

Linus keeps hinting (declaring, even) that he's nearly ready to work full-time on the 2.5 development branch of his kernel, and hand the 2.4 kernel off to Marcelo Tosatti. Marcelo's graciously agreeed to answer questions (you might want to read some of his mailing list contributions first), so here's your chance to ask him what he'll do in the famous footsteps of Linus and Alan Cox, and how he got there. Please only put one question per post; we'll pass along the top-rated comments to Marcelo for his answers, and hear back from him shortly.

Ask Marcelo Tosatti Anything?

[toupsie]

Ok, if I can ask anything, I'll take a shot. If you were a fish, what kind of fish would you be?

What would you rather do:

[Hektor_Troy]

1) Maintain Linux's kernel
2) Date Daisy Fuentes [daisyfuentes.com] (or any one person of your choice)
3) Get to play around with a bat and various people from Microsoft

cage match...

[feldkamp]

Who would win in a fight? You, Alan Cox, or Linus?

Too many questions for Marcelo - Ask Slashdot???

[tercero]

After the interview is all said and done. That's only ~10 questions. I'm seeing a lot more than 10 very important (IMHO) questions. Some of these questions being unanswered is a big contributor to why Linux is not so readily accepted in the corporate world.

Where can we get the questions answered? I think that there ought to be a Linux kernel documentation project to bring the docs up to speed and answer questions like this. I have not the knowledge of the kernel for this, but such a project would be invaluable to the Linux community.

Ask him *anything*??

[OpCode42]

African or european?

Re:Coup

[kaimiike1970]

I believe that is a Real Manical Superior.

girls running to you yet?

[2Bits]

Now that you are suddenly famous, do you see a lot of girls flocking to you yet?

Re:Hit by a bus

[psamuels]

The bus driver would have to be very determined.

Hmmmm. What sort of bus architecture would it take to run down Linus and Alan both?

First, it has to be pretty long-range. A modified FC bus, I suppose, with the protocol altered to support transatlantic distances and repeaters. The mother of all differential SCSI, shall we say.

It would also have to have a fairly fat pipe - one can't imagine serious injury resulting from a collision at a mere 10mbit/sec, right? PCI 33/32 packs a decent punch, enough to knock you down, but I doubt it could kill you. The FC bus would have to hang off something faster like AGP4x or VME.

Then we have routing ... you know there's no direct fibre line from Swansea to Santa Clara, so the bus protocol would have to support bridging of some sort at the least. I guess FC fits the bill here too.

........oh, that kind of bus? Ummmm, never mind..