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| Who Should We Interview? |
| By David Adams on 2009-10-15 18:00:31 |
| In the past, OSNews' interview volume was quite a bit higher than it has been lately. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Eugenia and her husband last week, and she mentioned that we haven't done as many interviews, and that in the past they were always very popular. So I decided that I'm going to make it a personal priority to publish more interviews. I'd like to crowdsource the idea, and ask the OSNews community who they'd like to see us interview. Please let us know in the comments of this story who you'd like us to talk to, and what specific questions you'd like us to ask. Shoot for the moon. It's not as hard to get an email-based interview as you might think. Obviously OS-world luminaries will always be a priority, but feel free to recommend people from the larger tech community, or even geek-oriented popular culture. |
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| How about one or two OSnews power users? |
| By Tuishimi on 2009-10-15 18:23:13 |
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There are some people out there who read/comment on OSnews who I am sure are involved in many open source projects... it would be nice to hear about what they do and why. Some of the commenters may also be the creators of non-open source software... I am sure you editors know some of them? |
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| Steve Balmer |
| By No it isnt on 2009-10-15 18:36:03 |
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Would be interesting. So, I'm not allowed to edit the comment title? I meant Ballmer, with two l's. Edited 2009-10-15 18:37 UTC |
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| Dave Cutler |
| By Wondercool on 2009-10-15 18:42:13 |
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He must be a hero of yours too? Loads of questions you could ask him - WNT and VMS (ROT1 encryption!) was that deliberate? - How much of the internal of VMS and NT are the same? - How difficult would it be to add a new CPU architecture again to NT, as it used to support MIPS and Dec Alfa in the past too. - Is it true that you coded a major OS extension over the weekend while other people thought it would take a year? (can't find the quote unfortunately) - Differences in coding then and now. I would prefer a general chat about the software discipline, not that interested in Azure (he is working on that now), but i guess that would be a very long interview, maybe an idea for the podcast to interview people 'from the field' in the podcast? |
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| RE: How about one or two OSnews power users? |
| By poundsmack on 2009-10-15 19:01:56 |
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I think that would be kind of interesting. it would help users get to know peopl ein the community better and I think thats pretty important. Also would be fun to interview some of the people over at QNX's Foundry27. Now that it's a community effort and a lot of cool OSS stuff is going into QNX it might be interesting. |
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| Aaron Griffin - Arch Linux Overlord |
| By jseiser on 2009-10-15 19:09:59 |
| I would like to see one with Aaron Griffin, he currently runs Arch Linux. |
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| RE: Steve Balmer |
| By satan666 on 2009-10-15 19:17:39 |
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> Would be interesting. So, I'm not allowed to edit the comment title? I meant Ballmer, with two l's. Why? Do you think that Microsoft's products need more exposure? |
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| Obama |
| By fretinator on 2009-10-15 19:19:30 |
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1. On a scale of 10 to 10, just how awesome are you? 2. Settle a bet: Was it you or Al Gore that invented the Internet? 3. Who cries more - Sasha or Glenn Beck? 4. How many trillion are in a gazillion? 5. Is it true that Hawaii is actually part of the United States? 6. You, Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh are in a life boat... |
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| Ed Curry: the guy responsible for getting... |
| By gfolkert on 2009-10-15 19:25:50 |
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Microsoft Windows NT v3.5 sp3 running on certain Hardware with no network connection or floppy (let alone a CDROM or such)... getting it Orange Book C2 Rating certified. Oh, wait... no. Never-mind. |
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| Proven kernel |
| By samad on 2009-10-15 19:29:55 |
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Maybe an interview with the group that wrote a kernel that was mathematically proven to work would be interesting on several levels: engineering dealing with the knitty-gritty details of reality, and the mathematics that operates in the clouds. This project is deeply rooted in the direct interaction between these two fields. The mathematics area is not dealth with much in operating systems, since they are so close to the hardware. This project is unique in that it is so heavily grounded in Platonic mathematics. Unfortunately their website doesn't provide much information, nor did articles about their work. Here are some questions I think would be interesting: - What motived them to write a mathematically proven kernel? - How do they address issues with drivers, which are most often the source of crashes, not the kernel itself? - The project aimed to reach a Platonic mathematical ideal in code, but what sort of engineering challenges did they face? - Why did they choose Haskell and not some other functional programming language? - How did they convert Haskell to C? - What does the group think about the situation of operating systems today? - Do they think their approach will have an impact on computer science? Why? - How do they feel about their project being open source? |
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| Hobby OS Developers |
| By Nathan O. on 2009-10-15 19:34:10 |
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I can't get enough info about hobby OSes, mostly because this is one of the only sources for information about them. Higepon from Mona OS. Durrand Miller from Spoon Micro Kernel (SMK). Wim from (the no-longer-under-development ) Triangle OS. Vanders, Kaj or others from Syllable. Aleksey Bragin from ReactOS. Anyone from Haiku (are there people associated with Haiku or is it an amalgamated super-person? I haven't followed the mailing lists lately). Many have been interviewed before, some more or less recently, and they are always a different kind of insightful! |
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