Who do you want us to interview?

[Patrick]

But since Matthias is from Germany, he probably speaking both german, english and norwegian (He has to know a little of it), and let's just get one thing straigh, I'm as good at german as you are at russian or chinese

If he doesn't speak English we'll have to get Varol Okan to give us a hand then. If Varol can't do it we have someone in our LUG who's from Germany. I'm sure she'd be willing to help out if asked. We Americans are the worst when it comes to speaking other languages. Then again Spanish is becoming the defacto second language in the U.S. because of the influx of immigrants (legal and otherwise) from Mexico and other parts of latin America. I guess Europeans are inclined to learn other languages due to their proximity to other nations.

[Tsuroerusu]

If he doesn't speak English we'll have to get Varol Okan to give us a hand then. If Varol can't do it we have someone in our LUG who's from Germany. I'm sure she'd be willing to help out if asked. We Americans are the worst when it comes to speaking other languages. Then again Spanish is becoming the defacto second language in the U.S. because of the influx of immigrants (legal and otherwise) from Mexico and other parts of latin America. I guess Europeans are inclined to learn other languages due to their proximity to other nations.

Well if he can post an announcement of a desktop environment (http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp. ... 67ffc3ffce) and build it through newgroups, I'm sure he speaks english, I doubt it's a problem, highly unlikely IMHO. In fact, most younger people who've been going to school over the last 15 - 20 years, has at least had one english leasson, it's very common today to find someone who at least speaks a little english.

[Tsuroerusu]

By the way, Linc should find an interview with Theo de Raadt interesting, as he is one of the four people who started NetBSD, he was later asked to resign, and then he founded OpenBSD.

[Patrick]

By the way, Linc should find an interview with Theo de Raadt interesting, as he is one of the four people who started NetBSD, he was later asked to resign, and then he founded OpenBSD.

Read that on his web page. I just sent him an email.

[Tsuroerusu]

Read that on his web page. I just sent him an email.

Cool man. let's hope he's willing to come on the show, I think it'd be very cool.
By the way, you may find it handy to know a litte bit more about him. One thing I noticed is he's actually born in Pretoria, South Africa, so Mark Shuttleworth is not the only "celebrity", if you can say so, who's born in South Africa, in the free software world.

Wikipedia is a good place for this kind of stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt

[Vogateer]

Maybe someone from the Linux Standard Base Project would be cool to interview. After that Michael Dell comment, seems like Standard Base would solve the problem of developing software and drivers for linux.

http://www.linuxbase.org/

Cool idea that we can keep all our distros, with gentoo for me, knoppix for live cds, and every other distro out there, yet still stick to a base that takes away that excuse, "We can't support thousands of distros," from companies like Dell.

[Patrick]

Maybe someone from the Linux Standard Base Project would be cool to interview. After that Michael Dell comment, seems like Standard Base would solve the problem of developing software and drivers for linux.

http://www.linuxbase.org/

Cool idea that we can keep all our distros, with gentoo for me, knoppix for live cds, and every other distro out there, yet still stick to a base that takes away that excuse, "We can't support thousands of distros," from companies like Dell.

We've interviewed Ian Murdock before. I believe these guys will be next us at the LWE so I'm sure we'll talk to someone from their organization. I totally agee with you that a standard base needs to be adhered to by all distros. This will insure that linux doesn't get too fragmented ala unix in the 80's. More interoperability between distros is a good thing.

[Tsuroerusu]

'ey Pat, did you ever hear back from Theo de Raadt?

[Patrick]

'ey Pat, did you ever hear back from Theo de Raadt?

Nope. No reply.

[Tsuroerusu]

'ey Pat, did you ever hear back from Theo de Raadt?

Nope. No reply.

Darn, oh well, there's always next time

[Judland]

Because I'm a new-old Mandriva user right now, how about an interview with Cliff Wade? More info about Cliff, here.

[thetza]

lets get larry wall on and grill him about when perl 6 is going to have a 1.0 release .

[Gomer_X]

lets get larry wall on and grill him about when perl 6 is going to have a 1.0 release .

When Perl 6 comes out, won't it be release 6.0? It's not a different language, it's just a major version bump.

I think it's pretty clear that Perl 6 will be released when it's ready, but since 5 works so well, who cares? I can't see how people will be in a rush to move to 6 anyway. My old web host was still running Perl 5.5 on Solaris.

I'd love to hear Larry on the show, though. He's always really entertaining.

[tarball]

How about Alan Cox?

He was a really good interviewee last time I heard him.

Could be interesting to see what he's up to.

[thetza]

lets get larry wall on and grill him about when perl 6 is going to have a 1.0 release .

When Perl 6 comes out, won't it be release 6.0? It's not a different language, it's just a major version bump.

I think it's pretty clear that Perl 6 will be released when it's ready, but since 5 works so well, who cares? I can't see how people will be in a rush to move to 6 anyway. My old web host was still running Perl 5.5 on Solaris.

Perl 6 _is_ a different language. And its not just a language, its also a virtual machine, which is what I'm actually excited about.. (By 1.0 release, I meant the 1.0 release of the parrot and its accompanying perl 6 compiler.)