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一份很好的linux入门资料

&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;community.&nbsp;So&nbsp;let&nbsp;me&nbsp;just&nbsp;<BR>
say&nbsp;at&nbsp;this&nbsp;point&nbsp;that&nbsp;we're&nbsp;thinking&nbsp;hard&nbsp;about&nbsp;it,&nbsp;and&nbsp;open&nbsp;to&nbsp;input.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;How&nbsp;does&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;stack&nbsp;up&nbsp;against--or&nbsp;with--existing&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;dat&nbsp;<BR>
abase&nbsp;products,&nbsp;like&nbsp;MySQL?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:It's&nbsp;complimentary.&nbsp;MySQL&nbsp;is&nbsp;nice&nbsp;as&nbsp;far&nbsp;as&nbsp;it&nbsp;goes,&nbsp;but&nbsp;InterBa&nbsp;<BR>
se&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;only&nbsp;commercially&nbsp;developed,&nbsp;tested&nbsp;and&nbsp;<BR>
deployed&nbsp;open&nbsp;sourced&nbsp;database&nbsp;product&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;world.&nbsp;Its&nbsp;Java&nbsp;support&nbsp;is&nbsp;unb&nbsp;<BR>
eatable.&nbsp;So&nbsp;is&nbsp;its&nbsp;performance.&nbsp;Even&nbsp;before&nbsp;we&nbsp;<BR>
open-sourced&nbsp;it,&nbsp;no&nbsp;other&nbsp;RDBMS&nbsp;was&nbsp;easier&nbsp;to&nbsp;port&nbsp;between&nbsp;platforms.&nbsp;And&nbsp;no&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;other&nbsp;database&nbsp;could&nbsp;scale&nbsp;from&nbsp;desktops&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>
huge,&nbsp;industrial-strength&nbsp;systems.&nbsp;Those&nbsp;advantages&nbsp;will&nbsp;only&nbsp;increase.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Are&nbsp;you&nbsp;going&nbsp;to&nbsp;manage&nbsp;this&nbsp;out&nbsp;of&nbsp;your&nbsp;current&nbsp;corporate&nbsp;infra&nbsp;<BR>
structure,&nbsp;or&nbsp;is&nbsp;this&nbsp;too&nbsp;different?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;We&nbsp;are&nbsp;setting&nbsp;up&nbsp;a&nbsp;separate&nbsp;company&nbsp;to&nbsp;manage&nbsp;the&nbsp;whole&nbsp;proces&nbsp;<BR>
s.&nbsp;We'll&nbsp;try&nbsp;to&nbsp;follow&nbsp;the&nbsp;paths&nbsp;already&nbsp;beaten&nbsp;<BR>
by&nbsp;Red&nbsp;Hat,&nbsp;VA&nbsp;Linux,&nbsp;TurboLinux&nbsp;and&nbsp;others.&nbsp;We&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;consolidate&nbsp;a&nbsp;core&nbsp;d&nbsp;<BR>
evelopment&nbsp;team,&nbsp;make&nbsp;our&nbsp;money&nbsp;on&nbsp;<BR>
service&nbsp;and&nbsp;support&nbsp;and&nbsp;adjunct&nbsp;products,&nbsp;do&nbsp;the&nbsp;compatibility&nbsp;testing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>
work&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;community&nbsp;to&nbsp;make&nbsp;sure&nbsp;there&nbsp;is&nbsp;one&nbsp;<BR>
source&nbsp;that&nbsp;doesn't&nbsp;fork.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Do&nbsp;you&nbsp;expect&nbsp;that&nbsp;database&nbsp;-&nbsp;the&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;database&nbsp;-&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;pa&nbsp;<BR>
rt&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;standard&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;distribution?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;I&nbsp;do.&nbsp;I&nbsp;absolutely&nbsp;do.&nbsp;We're&nbsp;talking&nbsp;about&nbsp;building&nbsp;material&nbsp;he&nbsp;<BR>
re.&nbsp;That's&nbsp;the&nbsp;great&nbsp;appeal&nbsp;of&nbsp;Linux:&nbsp;it's&nbsp;better&nbsp;<BR>
building&nbsp;material,&nbsp;and&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;better&nbsp;building&nbsp;method.&nbsp;To&nbsp;run&nbsp;with&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>
that&nbsp;metaphor,&nbsp;you&nbsp;need&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;just&nbsp;nails.&nbsp;You&nbsp;<BR>
need&nbsp;boards.&nbsp;You&nbsp;need&nbsp;lumber.&nbsp;In&nbsp;most&nbsp;enterprises,&nbsp;that's&nbsp;the&nbsp;data.&nbsp;And&nbsp;in&nbsp;m&nbsp;<BR>
ost&nbsp;cases&nbsp;the&nbsp;data&nbsp;is&nbsp;more&nbsp;important&nbsp;than&nbsp;the&nbsp;<BR>
applications.&nbsp;You&nbsp;need&nbsp;something&nbsp;that's&nbsp;bulletproof,&nbsp;that&nbsp;doesn't&nbsp;have&nbsp;memor&nbsp;<BR>
y&nbsp;leaks,&nbsp;that's&nbsp;reliable&nbsp;and&nbsp;proven.&nbsp;You&nbsp;get&nbsp;that&nbsp;<BR>
with&nbsp;InterBase.&nbsp;It's&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge&nbsp;advantage.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;What's&nbsp;to&nbsp;stop&nbsp;others&nbsp;from&nbsp;offering&nbsp;the&nbsp;same&nbsp;thing?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Nothing.&nbsp;But&nbsp;they&nbsp;will&nbsp;not&nbsp;be&nbsp;as&nbsp;mature.&nbsp;Here's&nbsp;a&nbsp;product&nbsp;that&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>
is&nbsp;already&nbsp;on&nbsp;sixty&nbsp;different&nbsp;platforms,&nbsp;used&nbsp;by&nbsp;<BR>
hundreds&nbsp;and&nbsp;hundreds&nbsp;of&nbsp;thousands&nbsp;of&nbsp;people.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;911&nbsp;system&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;United&nbsp;S&nbsp;<BR>
tates&nbsp;is&nbsp;run&nbsp;on&nbsp;it.&nbsp;Now&nbsp;it&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;available&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>
everyone.&nbsp;Think&nbsp;about&nbsp;what&nbsp;that&nbsp;means&nbsp;for&nbsp;enterprises&nbsp;that&nbsp;are&nbsp;only&nbsp;beginnin&nbsp;<BR>
g&nbsp;to&nbsp;adopt&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;now.&nbsp;It&nbsp;knocks&nbsp;down&nbsp;a&nbsp;huge&nbsp;<BR>
barrier&nbsp;to&nbsp;adoption.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;You&nbsp;see&nbsp;it&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;way&nbsp;for&nbsp;companies&nbsp;to&nbsp;migrate&nbsp;to&nbsp;Linux?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;I&nbsp;see&nbsp;it&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;big&nbsp;way.&nbsp;We&nbsp;built&nbsp;this&nbsp;as&nbsp;a&nbsp;cross-platform&nbsp;produc&nbsp;<BR>
t.&nbsp;Any&nbsp;data&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;have&nbsp;on&nbsp;Solaris&nbsp;will&nbsp;<BR>
immediately&nbsp;run&nbsp;on&nbsp;Linux.&nbsp;You&nbsp;just&nbsp;port&nbsp;your&nbsp;application&nbsp;over.&nbsp;You&nbsp;don't&nbsp;hav&nbsp;<BR>
e&nbsp;to&nbsp;worry&nbsp;about&nbsp;your&nbsp;data&nbsp;structures.&nbsp;That's&nbsp;<BR>
fundamental&nbsp;to&nbsp;what&nbsp;makes&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;such&nbsp;a&nbsp;sweet&nbsp;product.&nbsp;It&nbsp;runs&nbsp;on&nbsp;Solaris&nbsp;<BR>
,&nbsp;Linux,&nbsp;Windows,&nbsp;AIX,&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;flavors&nbsp;of&nbsp;<BR>
UNIX,&nbsp;even&nbsp;Wang&nbsp;systems&nbsp;from&nbsp;years&nbsp;gone&nbsp;by.&nbsp;So&nbsp;when&nbsp;you're&nbsp;an&nbsp;in-house&nbsp;compa&nbsp;<BR>
ny&nbsp;looking&nbsp;to&nbsp;expand&nbsp;and&nbsp;get&nbsp;out&nbsp;into&nbsp;the&nbsp;<BR>
world&nbsp;of&nbsp;application&nbsp;server&nbsp;technology,&nbsp;you&nbsp;need&nbsp;a&nbsp;way&nbsp;for&nbsp;your&nbsp;data&nbsp;to&nbsp;move&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;with&nbsp;you.&nbsp;The&nbsp;good&nbsp;news&nbsp;is,&nbsp;with&nbsp;InterBase,&nbsp;you&nbsp;<BR>
can&nbsp;do&nbsp;this&nbsp;easily&nbsp;and&nbsp;quickly.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Instead&nbsp;of&nbsp;building&nbsp;over&nbsp;again&nbsp;on&nbsp;another&nbsp;platform,&nbsp;you&nbsp;move&nbsp;who&nbsp;<BR>
le&nbsp;buildings.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;You&nbsp;move&nbsp;CAD&nbsp;drawings&nbsp;from&nbsp;one&nbsp;output&nbsp;to&nbsp;another&nbsp;output,&nbsp;rather&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;than&nbsp;having&nbsp;to&nbsp;FedEx&nbsp;or&nbsp;fax&nbsp;them.&nbsp;You&nbsp;<BR>
move&nbsp;the&nbsp;entire&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;over.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Because&nbsp;the&nbsp;data&nbsp;structures&nbsp;remain&nbsp;intact.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Exactly.&nbsp;And&nbsp;because&nbsp;we&nbsp;have&nbsp;the&nbsp;fifteen&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;experience&nbsp;at&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;doing&nbsp;it&nbsp;successfully&nbsp;across&nbsp;all&nbsp;these&nbsp;platforms,&nbsp;<BR>
we&nbsp;bring&nbsp;a&nbsp;lot&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;table.&nbsp;Including&nbsp;big-time&nbsp;customers&nbsp;who&nbsp;ne&nbsp;<BR>
ed&nbsp;to&nbsp;find&nbsp;a&nbsp;way&nbsp;to&nbsp;make&nbsp;the&nbsp;leap&nbsp;to&nbsp;Linux.&nbsp;There&nbsp;<BR>
is&nbsp;something&nbsp;for&nbsp;everybody&nbsp;here.&nbsp;We&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;people&nbsp;involved&nbsp;in&nbsp;testing&nbsp;i&nbsp;<BR>
t,&nbsp;improving&nbsp;it,&nbsp;submitting&nbsp;their&nbsp;findings&nbsp;and&nbsp;<BR>
changes&nbsp;back&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;organization,&nbsp;and&nbsp;circulating&nbsp;back&nbsp;out&nbsp;the&nbsp;constantly&nbsp;im&nbsp;<BR>
proved&nbsp;versions&nbsp;that&nbsp;anybody&nbsp;can&nbsp;use.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;And&nbsp;you&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;build&nbsp;an&nbsp;organization&nbsp;customers&nbsp;can&nbsp;buy&nbsp;support&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR>
from.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Yes.&nbsp;That's&nbsp;where&nbsp;we&nbsp;make&nbsp;our&nbsp;money.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;I&nbsp;think&nbsp;you're&nbsp;among&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;world&nbsp;to&nbsp;direc&nbsp;<BR>
tly&nbsp;go&nbsp;after&nbsp;what&nbsp;we&nbsp;might&nbsp;call&nbsp;Practical&nbsp;<BR>
IT.&nbsp;These&nbsp;are&nbsp;guys&nbsp;getting&nbsp;work&nbsp;done&nbsp;in&nbsp;large&nbsp;organizations,&nbsp;busily&nbsp;adopting&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;Linux&nbsp;because&nbsp;they&nbsp;like&nbsp;its&nbsp;virtues.&nbsp;They&nbsp;<BR>
are&nbsp;part&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;movement&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;practical&nbsp;sense,&nbsp;but&nbsp;not&nbsp;part&nbsp;of&nbsp;The&nbsp;Cause.&nbsp;Mo&nbsp;<BR>
st&nbsp;of&nbsp;them&nbsp;I&nbsp;would&nbsp;guess&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;heavy&nbsp;<BR>
Slashdot&nbsp;readers,&nbsp;or&nbsp;if&nbsp;they&nbsp;are&nbsp;they&nbsp;don't&nbsp;post&nbsp;there.&nbsp;Which&nbsp;makes&nbsp;them&nbsp;a&nbsp;b&nbsp;<BR>
it&nbsp;invisible.&nbsp;But&nbsp;we&nbsp;know&nbsp;they&nbsp;are&nbsp;out&nbsp;<BR>
there,&nbsp;because&nbsp;we&nbsp;know&nbsp;from&nbsp;IBM,&nbsp;HP&nbsp;and&nbsp;many&nbsp;other&nbsp;large&nbsp;companies&nbsp;tell&nbsp;us&nbsp;t&nbsp;<BR>
hat&nbsp;their&nbsp;companies&nbsp;are&nbsp;full&nbsp;of&nbsp;these&nbsp;<BR>
people,&nbsp;who&nbsp;are&nbsp;making&nbsp;the&nbsp;choice&nbsp;to&nbsp;migrate&nbsp;enthusiastically&nbsp;from&nbsp;NT&nbsp;and&nbsp;va&nbsp;<BR>
rious&nbsp;UNIX&nbsp;flavors&nbsp;to&nbsp;Linux.&nbsp;It&nbsp;seems&nbsp;to&nbsp;<BR>
me&nbsp;that's&nbsp;your&nbsp;constituency.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Yes.&nbsp;And&nbsp;they&nbsp;care&nbsp;about&nbsp;the&nbsp;future,&nbsp;too.&nbsp;Take&nbsp;a&nbsp;topic&nbsp;like&nbsp;EJB&nbsp;<BR>
,&nbsp;Enterprise&nbsp;Java&nbsp;Beans.&nbsp;Those&nbsp;beans&nbsp;become&nbsp;<BR>
transferable;&nbsp;I&nbsp;can&nbsp;sell,&nbsp;give,&nbsp;buy&nbsp;or&nbsp;take&nbsp;templates&nbsp;for,&nbsp;say,&nbsp;spreadsheets&nbsp;<BR>
.&nbsp;This&nbsp;constituency&nbsp;likes&nbsp;that&nbsp;kind&nbsp;of&nbsp;transferability&nbsp;<BR>
across&nbsp;both&nbsp;vertical&nbsp;and&nbsp;horizontal&nbsp;platforms.&nbsp;Well,&nbsp;that's&nbsp;what&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;<BR>
&nbsp;InterBase&nbsp;will&nbsp;give&nbsp;them.&nbsp;No&nbsp;matter&nbsp;what&nbsp;platform&nbsp;<BR>
you&nbsp;have,&nbsp;wherever&nbsp;you&nbsp;are,&nbsp;you&nbsp;don't&nbsp;have&nbsp;to&nbsp;worry&nbsp;about&nbsp;your&nbsp;data.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;So&nbsp;its&nbsp;virtues&nbsp;are&nbsp;a&nbsp;lot&nbsp;like&nbsp;Java.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Only&nbsp;not&nbsp;so&nbsp;closed.&nbsp;We're&nbsp;going&nbsp;open&nbsp;source&nbsp;all&nbsp;the&nbsp;way.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;And&nbsp;you&nbsp;think&nbsp;it&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;easier&nbsp;to&nbsp;do&nbsp;that&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;company&nbsp;th&nbsp;<BR>
an&nbsp;with&nbsp;your&nbsp;old&nbsp;one.&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Yes.&nbsp;What&nbsp;we're&nbsp;setting&nbsp;up&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;the&nbsp;host&nbsp;organization&nbsp;outsid&nbsp;<BR>
e&nbsp;our&nbsp;company.&nbsp;We&nbsp;don't&nbsp;want&nbsp;to&nbsp;do&nbsp;what&nbsp;<BR>
Netscape&nbsp;tried&nbsp;to&nbsp;do,&nbsp;which&nbsp;wasn't&nbsp;very&nbsp;successful.&nbsp;We&nbsp;need&nbsp;a&nbsp;separate&nbsp;entit&nbsp;<BR>
y.&nbsp;We&nbsp;are&nbsp;funding&nbsp;it,&nbsp;but&nbsp;only&nbsp;as&nbsp;one&nbsp;source&nbsp;of&nbsp;<BR>
funding.&nbsp;We&nbsp;want&nbsp;the&nbsp;community&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;fund&nbsp;it,&nbsp;and&nbsp;own&nbsp;shares&nbsp;in&nbsp;it.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Have&nbsp;you&nbsp;talked&nbsp;to&nbsp;some&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;service&nbsp;players,&nbsp;like&nbsp;Linuxcare?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;Yes&nbsp;we&nbsp;have.&nbsp;Also&nbsp;with&nbsp;Corel,&nbsp;TurboLinux,&nbsp;Red&nbsp;Hat&nbsp;and&nbsp;others.&nbsp;<BR>
Doc&nbsp;Searls:&nbsp;Are&nbsp;they&nbsp;ready&nbsp;to&nbsp;include&nbsp;you&nbsp;in&nbsp;their&nbsp;upcoming&nbsp;distributions?&nbsp;<BR>
Dale&nbsp;Fuller:&nbsp;We're&nbsp;moving&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;next&nbsp;level&nbsp;of&nbsp;discussions.&nbsp;But&nbsp;I'm&nbsp;confiden&nbsp;<BR>
t.&nbsp;This&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;only&nbsp;serious&nbsp;database&nbsp;product&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;<BR>