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Patrick Volkerding Interviewed by The Age

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the insert-slackware-joke-here dept.

boa13 writes "The Age, a major newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, has published an interview with Patrick Volkerding, The Man behind Slackware. Covered are the early history of Slackware, its business model, its current state, Patrick's plans for the future and his opinion about the commercialisation of Linux. "

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  1. Re:Patrick Volkerding is cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Bruce was doing cool stuff before Linux was invented. Bruce developed Electric Fence memory
    debugger on Sun gear, and later ported it to Linux.

    ESR was the world's expert on Unix for Intel IA32 hardware, long before Linux was invented.
    He maintained the definitive Usenet list of i386 Unix. He personally tested and reviewed them all.

    Before Slackware, my first association with Patrick Volkerding was when he took up a collection to help Linus Torvalds financially when Linus was still a student. Patrick collected several thousand dollars in dontations for Linus, and very penny of it went to Linus. Very cool.

    I like all these guys. If they weren't doing Linux, they'd be doing something else equally fine.