Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

KernelTrap Interview With Alan Cox

Posted by timothy on from the player-versus-player-violence dept.

Jeremy writes "KernelTrap has spoken with Linux guru Alan Cox. He is perhaps the second most influental Linux kernel hacker, next only to Linus. In this interview he talks about himself, his history with computers and Linux, working for Red Hat, Marcello and the 2.4 kernel, the DMCA, the future of Linux and much more."

1 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. Re:... by telecaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Not hard to /. a site when they're using MySQL.

    I'll catch hell for saying this, but MySQL is a "dog with fleas"...

    KernelTrap better consider getting off that "toy of a database" and move over to something more stable and scalable like PostgreSQL/DB2 or even (gack) Oracle. I'll never understand why people use that thing over a *real* database...

    I see so many app's that are built around MySQL and PHP and I wonder what the HELL people are thinking.

    flame off.