Original OSNews Interviews Archive

Carl Sassenrath Interviewed at Amiga.org

Mike Bouma 2003-08-07 Original OSNews Interviews 2 Comments

Kees writes: "Amiga.org interviewed Carl Sassenrath. Carl Sassenrath is best known for his original design and implementation of the Amiga Multitasking Operating System released in 1985. Check it our here". Mr Sassenrath is also the Founder, CTO and Chairman of REBOL Technologies, a company which created the cross-platform REBOL messaging language and REBOL Internet Operating System.

OSNews Speaks With Ximian’s Miguel de Icaza

Adam Scheinberg 2003-08-04 Original OSNews Interviews 60 Comments

The big news today is no doubt Novell's acquisition of Ximian, Inc. So it was that much more interesting to get the chance to speak to Ximian's lead primate, Miguel de Icaza, today and ask him some questions about Ximian, Novell, and their future.

Interview with Chris McKillop of QNX Software Systems

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-14 Original OSNews Interviews 48 Comments

Today we host an interview with Chris McKillop, software engineer of QNX Software Systems. Chris is probably the most well known QNX engineer as he is always helping out the QNX community in forums, IRC etc. In this interview we talk about the embedded space, the competition but also about the QNX Momentics 6.2.x release (preview with screenshots), a free OS to download and try out on your PC (~260 MB ISO image, ~1 GB primary partition required for installation).

Interview with Christophe de Dinechin, HP-UX Engineer

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-08 Original OSNews Interviews 40 Comments

Today we host an interview with Christophe de Dinechin, Software Architect in HP-UX (Software business unit, Infrastructure Solutions). Most of you already know HP-UX, the leading "traditional" UNIX today feature-wise (second only to Solaris in Unix market-share, mostly competing with AIX). With Christophe we discuss HP-UX's competition, the other... 5 OSes HP supports with its various products, the Itanium platform and more.

Interview with Solaris Kernel Engineer Andy Tucker

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-18 Original OSNews Interviews 43 Comments

Today we host an interview with Andy Tucker, Distinguished Engineer of the Solaris kernel. We talk about the internals of Solaris, the competition and the future of the Solaris OE. The 9th question was answered by Robert O'Dea, Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems.

Interview with Syllable’s Kristian Van Der Vliet

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-16 Original OSNews Interviews 35 Comments

Today we host an interview with Kristian "Vanders" Van Der Vliet, project leader of the open source OS Syllable. Syllable was born from the ashes of AtheOS just about a year ago and today has evolved to version 0.4.4, released just a few days ago. Read more for the interview and 5 screenshots of the latest version of the promising OS.

Interview with Ximian’s Nat Friedman

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-03 Original OSNews Interviews 123 Comments

Today we feature a 4-page interview with Nat Friedman, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Product Development at Ximian. We discuss a lot of interesting topics, ranging from Ximian's products, to Apple, to Linux on the desktop and much more. Four screenshots of the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 are also included, so come in and have a pick! UPDATE: Eight more screenshots added! Update2: Yaay... one more screenshot for your viewing pleasure!

Focus on FreeBSD: Interview with the Core Team

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Original OSNews Interviews 92 Comments

Today we feature an in-depth interview with three members of FreeBSD's Core (Wes Peters, Greg Lehey and M. Warner Losh) and also a major FreeBSD developer (Scott Long). It is a long read, but we touch a number of hot issues, from the Java port to corporate backing, the Linux competition, the 5.x branch and how it stacks up against the other Unices, UFS2, the possible XFree86 fork, SCO and its Unix IP situation, even re-unification of the BSDs. If you are into (any) Unix, this interview is a must read.

Sun’s Vikas Deolaliker Reflects on Opteron/Win2k3 Launches

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-28 Original OSNews Interviews 32 Comments

Today, we feature a mini Q&A with Vikas Deolaliker, Group Product Manager of the Competitive Strategy Group at Sun Microsystems. We discuss a number of issues that arise on Sun's stategy in light of the recent releases of the AMD Opteron and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. We also get a taste of Sun's position on the limited hardware support of Sun Solaris 9 on x86.

Interview with João Paredes of Chefax R&D

Guest post by Andy Tars 2003-04-25 Original OSNews Interviews 54 Comments

João Paredes is an almost-21-year-old student of Electrotecnical and Computers Engeneering at Oporto's State University for Engeneering (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto), in Portugal. He is well known and respected in his community, known to be a visonary and a good leader. Also known to be an excelent programmer, as he's been programming computers for 16 years now (yes, since he was 5).

Interview with the PostgreSQL Team

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-21 Original OSNews Interviews 45 Comments

PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS (ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management system. "PostgreSQL is one of the best-managed open source projects out there" a friend-in-the-know told me about 2 years ago, so today we feature a mini-interview with five members of the PostgreSQL team about their plans on the popular DB.

Interview with Professor David Costa of CollegeLinux

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-17 Original OSNews Interviews 31 Comments

There is a Linux distro for any possible need and CollegeLinux is geared towards students and schools! Today, we interview Prof. David Costa of the Robert Kennedy College in Delémont, Switzerland regarding their initiative behind CollegeLinux.

Interview with Jordan Hubbard of Apple and OpenDarwin

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-15 Original OSNews Interviews 31 Comments

A few days ago we featured an interview with one of Fink's project leaders regarding their package management solution which breeds more Unix software to MacOSX. Today, we host an interview with Jordan Hubbard regarding the DarwinPorts, speaking for the DarwinPorts Team which a similar effort to bring more Unix software on Mac OS X. Jordan is currently working at Apple and OpenDarwin (while many will know Jordan as the FreeBSD co-founder).

Interview with Frans van Nispen of Xentronix and Sequel

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-14 Original OSNews Interviews 25 Comments

OSNews hosts today a mini-interview with Frans van Nispen of Xentronix and the Sequel OS, a new BeOS-like OS which aims to continue where the BeOS technology left off as opposed to being a direct clone. Most people will know Frans from the AtariST demoscene and from his BeOS involvements. In this interview, we will query the status of Sequel (which btw, I am not part of anymore, so don't email me about it please :) and the status of Xentronix's Refraction and SampleStudio PRO.

Interview with Fink’s Project Leader Max Horn

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-09 Original OSNews Interviews 20 Comments

Today, we host a mini-interview with Fink's project leader, Max Horn. The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. They modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management and you can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

Interview with Matt Wilson of Red Hat, Inc.

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-07 Original OSNews Interviews 74 Comments

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.

Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 Original OSNews Interviews 24 Comments

The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. Today, we talk to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson.

Interview with Miguel de Icaza

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-01 Original OSNews Interviews 54 Comments

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.

Interview with Gaël Duval of MandrakeSoft

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-27 Original OSNews Interviews 34 Comments

OSNews features today a mini-interview with Gaël Duval, co-founder of MandrakeSoft. These days, Gaël serves in the Communications department of MandrakeSoft and he shares his insight with us about the recent release of Mandrake Linux 9.1 (review).

ArkLinux 1.0a7 Released; Exclusive Interview with Bero

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-13 Original OSNews Interviews 26 Comments

OSNews reader Alien_II sent us in the news about the release of ArkLinux 1.0-Alpha_7.1. You can read the announcement. ArkLinux uses KDE 3.1.1 (from the CVS) and kernel 2.4.21-pre5. Read more for an interview with ArkLinux's Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer and two screenshots of the latest release.

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