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Ask Donald Becker

Posted by Roblimo on from the linux-luminaries dept.

This is a "needs no introduction" introduction, because Donald Becker is one of the people who has been most influential in making GNU/Linux a usable operating system, and is also one of the "fathers" of Beowulf and commodity supercomputing clusters in general. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply, plus a special one for this interview only: "What if we made a Beowulf cluster of these?" is not an appropriate question.

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  1. Considering you're on the board at scyld.. by Havokmon · · Score: 5, Funny
    Did you ever have anything to do with crynwr?
    And why don't you people like vowels? :)

    (Thanks for the ne2000 driver!)

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    "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
  2. Time to burn some karma... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Donald Becker,

    With all that you've accomplished to date, how much do you think a Beowulf cluster of Donald Beckers could accomplish?

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    -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
  3. Re:How to bring this up with your boss?? by swb · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would think the first step would be to recognize that the people in management aren't pinheads.

    Thanks for pointing that out. To clear things up, some are shitheads, waterheads, airheads and buttheads. Let's remember that there's a diversity of stupidity and a uniformity of idiocy in management.