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volunteers currently, which would that be? <BR> <BR> AC: That's always a hard question to answer. One problem is that, as Fred Brooks observed, adding man <BR> power to a late software project can 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 kernel facilities. A nice graphical ISA <BR> PnP manager is one example. Others include some end user friendly tools for the new 2.2 bandwidth control <BR> and management functions. <BR> <BR> The free software world doesn't really, however, work like a managed corporate structure. If someone is going <BR> to do something as a volunteer, it has to be something they find fun. Watch freshmeat and also for calls from <BR> people like the FSF (eg they are currently after more documentation people) and see if something tickles <BR> your fancy. <BR> <BR> LWN: What do you think was the most significant event in the Linux world in 1998? Any idea what will be <BR> the most interesting development of 1999? <BR> <BR> AC: The most visible one was clearly the sudden discovery of Linux by the suits and very much tied to the <BR> Mozilla event. I'm not sure what surprises 1999 will hold. Microsoft's current attempts to commit corporate <BR> suicide are bound to have some effect on the Linux world in 1999. Whether they will be the most significant <BR> is hard to tell. The other one will be if large PC vendors start to make machines with Linux or no OS <BR> available. The recent fun with the Windows Refund saga will undoubtedly help this. It's actually important <BR> that it becomes easy to buy a machine without an OS. It would be bad for people like the FreeBSD <BR> community if most of the people fighting for OS choice simply said "OK, now you can have Linux" and left it <BR> at that. <BR> <BR> My guess is 2000/2001 will be when the really big stuff happens. That I suspect is the time scale for big Unix <BR> vendors to begin openly switching to Linux. For vendors whose revenue stream is primarily support and <BR> hardware, the math is simple enough. <BR> <BR> LWN: Along those lines, what are your thoughts on the future of the BSD variants? Will Linux be their <BR> undoing? Is our relationship with 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 NetBSD dying. At one point, I'd assumed <BR> NetBSD was doomed but it has a very definitely stayed alive. <BR> <BR> In the longer term, I expect that Linux will help them. Supporting the Linux kernel API (something they <BR> already do fairly well) will give them the same application base that Linux is creating. With SCO, BSDI and <BR> apparently Solaris going to support the Linux kernel API, we should see a lot of applications for Linux <BR> running just fine on anyone's favourite OS. <BR> <BR> LWN: How do you feel about the increasing corporate interest in Linux? Does Linux risk "losing its soul" as <BR> some people fear? <BR> <BR> AC: Linux has always reflected its user base so I'm sure that some parts of it will turn more corporate. I don't <BR> actually see it as a big problem. No large corporation can "own" Linux or take away the right to freely <BR> distribute and change it. <BR> <BR> Personally I don't mind if someone releases a Linux distribution aimed totally at corporate IT managers. I'm <BR> sure the technical community 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 slow to change" have them excited. <BR> <BR> Linux already has this spectrum - from the corporate style Caldera use, through the "easy to use/install" of <BR> Red Hat and the "pure and free" vision of Debian. It's richer for it now; I don't see why it should be poorer for <BR> it in future. <BR> <BR> LWN: We all have much fun reading <?RLink ("roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/diary.html", <BR> "Telsa's diary")>. Any hints for others who want to be hard-core hackers and stay married too? And how <BR> did the battle of the cuddly penguins end up, anyway? <BR> <BR> AC: There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the <BR> press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the <BR> 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 to me than sitting in front of a <BR> computer reading email. <BR> <BR> As to the penguins, they are currently all sitting on top of the printer paper in a sort of group hug. Now that I <BR> have a Wai Yip penguin to compare with the Linuxmall and other penguins, I should probably write a cuddly <BR> penguin review. <BR> <BR>-- <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 bbs.net.tsinghua.edu.cn·[FROM: 166.111.196.16] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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