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<BR> AC: That's always a hard question to answer. One problem is that, as <BR> Fred Brooks observed, adding man power to a late software project can <BR> actually make it later. This is true with free software as well. <BR> <BR> Clear areas that could do with more work are better GUI tools for the <BR> kernel facilities. A nice graphical ISA PnP manager is one example. <BR> Others include some end user friendly tools for the new 2.2 bandwidth <BR> control and management functions. <BR> <BR> The free software world doesn't really, however, work like a managed <BR> corporate structure. If someone is going to do something as a <BR> volunteer, it has to be something they find fun. Watch freshmeat and <BR> also for calls from people like the FSF (eg they are currently after <BR> more documentation people) and see if something tickles your fancy. <BR> <BR> LWN: What do you think was the most significant event in the Linux <BR> world in 1998? Any idea what will be the most interesting development <BR> of 1999? <BR> <BR> AC: The most visible one was clearly the sudden discovery of Linux by <BR> the suits and very much tied to the Mozilla event. I'm not sure what <BR> surprises 1999 will hold. Microsoft's current attempts to commit <BR> corporate suicide are bound to have some effect on the Linux world in <BR> 1999. Whether they will be the most significant is hard to tell. The <BR> other one will be if large PC vendors start to make machines with <BR> Linux or no OS available. The recent fun with the Windows Refund saga <BR> will undoubtedly help this. It's actually important that it becomes <BR> easy to buy a machine without an OS. It would be bad for people like <BR> the FreeBSD community if most of the people fighting for OS choice <BR> simply said "OK, now you can have Linux" and left it at that. <BR> <BR> My guess is 2000/2001 will be when the really big stuff happens. That <BR> I suspect is the time scale for big Unix vendors to begin openly <BR> switching to Linux. For vendors whose revenue stream is primarily <BR> support and hardware, the math is simple enough. <BR> <BR> LWN: Along those lines, what are your thoughts on the future of the <BR> BSD variants? Will Linux be their undoing? Is our relationship with <BR> the BSD systems what it should be? <BR> <BR> AC: I don't think Linux will kill FreeBSD. I can see one of Open or <BR> NetBSD dying. At one point, I'd assumed NetBSD was doomed but it has a <BR> very definitely stayed alive. <BR> <BR> In the longer term, I expect that Linux will help them. Supporting the <BR> Linux kernel API (something they already do fairly well) will give <BR> them the same application base that Linux is creating. With SCO, BSDI <BR> and apparently Solaris going to support the Linux kernel API, we <BR> should see a lot of applications for Linux running just fine on <BR> anyone's favourite OS. <BR> <BR> LWN: How do you feel about the increasing corporate interest in Linux? <BR> Does Linux risk "losing its soul" as some people fear? <BR> <BR> AC: Linux has always reflected its user base so I'm sure that some <BR> parts of it will turn more corporate. I don't actually see it as a big <BR> problem. No large corporation can "own" Linux or take away the right <BR> to freely distribute and change it. <BR> <BR> Personally I don't mind if someone releases a Linux distribution aimed <BR> totally at corporate IT managers. I'm sure the technical community <BR> will use words like "boring, out of date, slow to change" about such a <BR> distribution. I've met corporate IT managers - words like "boring and <BR> slow to change" have them excited. <BR> <BR> Linux already has this spectrum - from the corporate style Caldera <BR> use, through the "easy to use/install" of Red Hat and the "pure and <BR> free" vision of Debian. It's richer for it now; I don't see why it <BR> should be poorer for it in future. <BR> <BR> LWN: We all have much fun reading Telsa's diary. Any hints for others <BR> who want to be hard-core hackers and stay married too? And how did the <BR> battle of the cuddly penguins end up, anyway? <BR> <BR> AC: There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially <BR> inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true <BR> that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, <BR> members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world. <BR> <BR> The thing that I suspect matters most is that Telsa is more important <BR> to me than sitting in front of a computer reading email. <BR> <BR> As to the penguins, they are currently all sitting on top of the <BR> printer paper in a sort of group hug. Now that I have a Wai Yip <BR> penguin to compare with the Linuxmall and other penguins, I should <BR> probably write a cuddly penguin review. <BR> <BR> Eklektix, Inc. Linux powered! 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