Linus Torvalds says he is more fascinated with the emergence of Linux on the desktop than what is happens in the server market because it is the harder market to enter and one that tends to set the pace for business use. The creator of Linux talks about where the operating system has been and where it is headed in this searchEnterpriseLinux question and answer interview. Linuxcare Chief Technology Officer David L. Sifry talks about a possible merger between his Linux technology services company and Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc. in this first of a two-part interview. Find out how and why in this interview. The challenge is that as companies continue to embrace Linux as a solution, they need people who can understand and implement Linux-based solutions.
Training is a key to that.
Businesses need to help their staff become more familiar with Linux and be able to implement those solutions. TrustedBSD and SELinux are similar in many ways, and also differ in many ways. SELinux differs from TrustedBSD in that it is a more mature system, having been worked on for several years, that it addresses only mandatory access controls, and that it uses the Flask architecture rather than explicit hard-coded policies. Larry discusses a wide range of topics, including his job at O'Reilly, Perl certification, the commercialization of Perl, competition between open source projects, the power of laziness, Perl 6, post-modernism, software patents, documentation, and more. Ltd. All rights reserved.