Maddog on the State of Linux 30
Amy Kucharik writes "Long-time Linux user and pioneer Jon "maddog" Hall spoke recently with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about what he knows best: Linux. Hall discusses where the penguin is going and where it's been in this exclusive interview."
in time for 2008? (Score:5, Funny)
And be careful, because if 'Linus' isn't a girlieman name then I don't know what is.
Huh? (Score:2, Interesting)
Say what? Who is having problems fitting Firefox into their Microsoft "suite" (whatever that is)? What the hell is he talking about?
Re:Huh? (Score:1)
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Good stuff (Score:1)
This guy is funny, perhaps because he's being honest.
Re:Good stuff (Score:5, Insightful)
It mostly works good enough to make it difficult to break out of it - which is where the problem with moving to Linux lies.
Re:Good stuff (Score:2, Interesting)
I dunno, I was pretty disappointed in this interview. I'd expected better.
Re:Good stuff (Score:2)
Time to get in linux (Score:1)
So now we know that it takes 3 years of knowing about linux before one is willing to use. Now that Linux has been hyped (at least here) 2003-04, we might expect larger numbers in mmm...06-07?
Re:Time to get in linux (Score:2)
Shower Knobs (Score:2)
Re:Shower Knobs (Score:3, Funny)
nerd.. shower?
what was he doing there, installing linux?
Re:Shower Knobs (Score:2)
What, that they have smooth soapy knobs?
Re:Shower Knobs (Score:1)
yes, i love microsofts knobs.
Anyone can complain (Score:2, Insightful)
I would have liked to hear more details in this interview on how the LSB [linuxbase.org] project is going and the other activities going on at the Free Standards [freestandards.org] organization since Jon is on their Board of Directors.
No wonder (Score:2, Insightful)
If there is anything like bad press then Bruce Perens, maddog, ESR and RMS are the pioneers of it.
You fellows should be glad that Linus is such a lovely chap, he can sometimes make up for it.
Seriously, if Linux was a company and had all the same incompetent spokespersons it would be in the gutter.
Maybe Linus can gag them for attampt on ruining his reputation.
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Re:No wonder (Score:1)
I, however, originally came from the UNIX (BSD)world and has gone to the Microsoft
Everything Microsoft is available through
The others are just pure flamethrow
No mention of Evolution/SUSE/Open Exchange (Score:5, Informative)
I understand his point about Sendmail and developing countries adopting F/OSS, but the question was pretty pointed;
"any communications and e-mail F/OSS apps running on Linux that might make a dent in Outlook/Exchange?"
He could have shared the fact that......
IDL Technology Group [idltechnology.com] in CA-US claims : Those are the kind of facts Senor Maddog needs to be dropping. Also, here's a online demo for SLOX 4.1 [suse.com]
(BTW: I don't work for SUSE/Novell, RICIS, IDL)
A slight snag (Score:2)
"Server software maker goes open source" [com.com]
Re:Why GNU's dying. (Score:1)
Nope. GNU and proprietary software can peacefully coexist and not bother each other. Microsoft will tell you otherwise, but there is nothing about the GNU GPL and other proprietary liscences that means that they can't coexist in the world together. That being said, I will grant that the liscences are incompatible (meaning you can't insert GPL code into a closed project, and you can't steal someone's code without a liscence to put into a GPL project), but b
Hot soapy, smooth knobs... erm (Score:3, Funny)
Recently, I was in a shower in Korea, and the shower knobs were smooth and covered with soapy water. I could not turn on the cold water, and I was almost scalded. I suggested that the management go to the hardware store and buy new handles for the faucets, ones with rougher knobs. This would be possible due to the standards in the plumbing industry that set the size of pipes, screw pitch, etc., and allow you to put several different styles of knobs on the end of the pipes. If Microsoft had built the hotel, they would have to rip out the entire piping system, all the way back to the water supply on the street and replace the entire thing, just to allow me to use a different manufacturer's knobs.
Freud would have a field day on this chappy!
OK it was immature. and fun! (it worked if you saw the subtext)
Actually, that may have been a freudian slip... (Score:2)