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Tridge Speaks Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the samba-man-speaketh dept.

Robert McMillan from Linux Magazine posted an interview with Tridge, of Samba and Tivo fame. He's one of the most important folks in all of Linux, and this interview is worth a read. He covers a lot of good material like crap code, bonobo, and what stuff in the kernel is innovative. He also talks a bit about what he might do after Microsoft drops SMB from future versions of windows.

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  1. Oh come on...... please!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting
    Why does slashdot always alternate between poorly researched , poorly written or old recycled news!!

    THIS styory was already seen a few days ago in Yahoo! This story was taken almost word for word!!!!

    What's da dillio yo!!

    This is not a TROLL, this is the truth... see it for yourself

    Yahoo! had the story 3 days ago!!

  2. Yet Another Unemployed Programmer (TM)? by heroine · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As far as I know VA I.O.U. eliminated all their programmers, including the Australian group. Conspicuously absent from the interview is #1 whether he's employed and whether open source projects contributed anything positive to his employment prospects and #2 how he's handled liability for the use of Samba.

  3. No TiVo questions by displacer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why didn't they ask him about tivo? They mention his Tivo hacking in the into but then, leave the readers hanging.

  4. Re:Very intriguing individual by Sloppy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My only concern would be that as awesome as Samba is, that Microsoft would dump the SMB protocol completely, rendering the current implementations useless with newer Microsoft OS'

    It's pretty much a given that they have to do this, someday. Andrew says it's for cleanliness/performance reasons. But another reason is that the more widely adopted a standard is, the more dangerous it is for Microsoft to conform. A paranoid person might even say Samba's success is the reason SMB must die.

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  5. Re:Great quote by Peter+Harris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last sentence is the punchline though, even on its own. It would fit in practically any context where I work :-)

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  6. Re:clc by KidSock · · Score: 3, Interesting

    comp.lang.c will set you straight within a couple of weeks

    Bravo. This is true. Once I posted a very simple stack.c as an example in the quest for a "perfect" code example. They went back and fourth picking it apart. I would re-write it and post again. Regardless of how trivial the code is the end result was a great example of c code that I can reference as such. Stongly recommend a simlar exercise.

    BTW that code is here.