Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Apr 2003 17:10 UTC
Today, Red Hat Linux 9 has been "officially" released to the masses via the FTP servers, and we host here a mini-interview with Matt Wilson, Manager, Base Operating Systems at Red Hat, Inc.
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Some questions in the interview, in this reader's opinion, seem to be leading the interviee.
Take, for instance, question 7: "Why is Red Hat Linux 9 still uses ext3 while more feature-rich filesystems like ReiserFS and XFS are out and about?" It seems to have removed any debate as to the virtues of the various filesystems with regards to RH's objectives. Questions like "are ReiserFS and XFS more feature-rich?", "Are these the features we want/need in RHL for our customers?" and "Should RH divert resources from helping develop ext3 to either (or both) ReiserFS and XFS?" are just assumed to be moot. Or does the interviewer assume its readers know this already?
Question 8: "Why isn't Red Hat working together with NVidia to resolve kernel crashes and bugs that happen very often when running the accelerated Nvidia drivers ...?" Is there something the interviewer knows that the readers don't? Do we know that RedHat ISN'T working with NVidia? If I were to make a guess, I'd even be so bold as to guess wager that RH DOES indeed work with RedHat based on the timely release of their latest drivers (1.0-4349) for RH9 *on the same day of RH9's release*.
Other than those, it's another very thought-provoking and informative interview from OSNews, in general, and from Ms. Loli-Queru specifically. Kudos!