Talk To a Successful Free Software Project Leader

Posted by Roblimo on Monday December 23, 2002 @05:01AM from the making-netadmin's-lives-easier-all-over-the-world dept.

Nagios (formerly known as NetSaint) is a GPL network monitor software project that's been getting a lot of buzz lately among *Nix sysadmins. Nagios is unquestionably a free software success story even if it's not as high profile as Apache or Linux. Ethan Galstad leads the project. Perhaps he can tell us why Nagios has done so well, so that other free software projects can enjoy similar success. Usual Slashdot interview rules; post your question below, we'll email 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Ethan about 24 hours after this post appears, and publish his answers soon after he gets them back to us.

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Huh? by DNS-and-BIND · 2002-12-23 05:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*Nix? WTF is *Nix?
You know, the time that one had to avoid using the trademarked term UNIX has long passed. You won't be getting a note from AT&T's lawyers if you do. I promise.
Oh, and I hear some linux nerd in the crowd shouting, "*Nix" means "any unix-like operating system!". No, it doesn't. Using the term doesn't make you look sophisticated and cool, either.

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