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Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-for-everyone dept.

rumba writes "OSDL announced today that Andrew Tridgell, Samba developer, joins OSDL as the lab's second appointed Fellow. Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the Samba project."

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  1. Mirror by jonno317 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since it appears the site is already bogged down.. Link

  2. Does this mean.. by aurb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..that Samba will be integrated into the kernel?

    1. Re:Does this mean.. by armyofone · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Let's hope not. Best to keep the kernel small and let the specialized tools, (like Samba), do their job as modules or separate applications for those who need it. Those who don't use it won't appreciate the kernel bloat.

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    2. Re:Does this mean.. by S4t0r1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      no, it means simply that Andrew Tridgell can now work on samba full time without having the annoyance to find something to eat :)

    3. Re:Does this mean.. by 0racle · · Score: 2, Funny

      They hooked him up to an IV to feed him?

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    4. Re:Does this mean.. by m50d · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Why can't they just uncheck the option? Those who care about kernel bloat are surely compiling custom kernels anyway

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    5. Re:Does this mean.. by Frohboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, no wonder he has trouble finding food.. They took the list of pizza places in Canberra off of the Samba documention page. Furthemore, the Samba FAQ no longer seems to list ways of sending pizza to the Samba developers.

      See here for an old copy.

  3. Slashdotted by northcat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Site slashdotted. Here is the complete article:

    Site Error

    An error was encountered while publishing this resource.

    ZODB.POSException.ReadConflictError

    Sorry, a site error occurred.

    1. Re:Slashdotted by msh104 · · Score: 2, Informative

      here's the already slashdotted article! (with human readable formatting)

      Tridgell to focus on leading development work for Samba project that provides popular drop in Linux replacement for Windows file and print servers

      BEAVERTON, Ore. - January 17, 2005 - The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® in the enterprise, today named Samba creator Andrew Tridgell, PhD, as the Lab's second appointed Fellow. Tridgell joins Linux creator Linus Torvalds as an OSDL Fellow, positions created by the Lab to allow strategic developers to focus exclusively on their development and coding contributions to the open source community.

      As an OSDL Fellow, Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the open source Samba project. Licensed under the GPL, Samba is a suite of programs that allow WindowsR clients to access a server's filespace and printers via the SMB (Server Message Block) CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocols. Tridgell first released Samba in January 1992 as an SMB server for UNIX. Samba, used by millions of people around the world, runs on Linux and most enterprise operating systems.

      ''Samba has long been one of the most important open source projects and it is recognized as a critical component for Linux in business,'' said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. ''We're pleased to have a developer of Andrew's stature join the Lab and that we can dedicate our resources to helping him continue his contributions to the Samba project.''

      Tridgell is currently working on the next major release of Samba, version 4, that has five goals: protocol completeness, extreme testability, non-POSIX backends, fully asynchronous internals and flexible process models.

      ''Samba4 is reaching an important milestone as a complete re-write of the old Samba code with the ambitious goal to be able to become an Active Directory Domain Controller,'' Tridgell said. ''I'm excited about my new role with OSDL and being free to dedicate my energies full-time to Samba.''

      Tridgell comes to OSDL after working in research and engineering roles at IBM, VA Software, Linuxcare, Quantum. He is also a visiting fellow at Australian National University.

      About the Open Source Development Lab

      OSDL - home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 by CA, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC, OSDL is a non-profit organization at the center of Linux supported by a global consortium of more than 40 of the worlds largest Linux customers and IT industry leaders. OSDL sponsors industry-wide initiatives around Linux in telecommunications, in the enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. The Lab also provides Linux expertise and computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers around the world. Visit OSDL on the Web at http://www.osdl.org/.

      OSDL is a registered trademark of Open Source Development Labs, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.

  4. Related Samba.org news article by ctrlsoft · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://us1.samba.org/samba/news/announcements/#tri dge_osdl

  5. There's gonna be trouble this year... by mslinux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, Big Blue opens up 500 patents to OSS developers and OSS companies. Then we hear that Tridgell (the guy who makes Linux interoperate with Windows computers) gets a job at OSDL... is it just me or is something BIG about to go down?

    I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS ;)

    1. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 2, Insightful
      First, Big Blue opens up 500 patents to OSS developers and OSS companies. Then we hear that Tridgell (the guy who makes Linux interoperate with Windows computers) gets a job at OSDL... is it just me or is something BIG about to go down?

      IBM opens up a few of their patents ( they have thousands, don't they? ) and Tridgell gets, deservely, funding to continue his work.

      How on earth does that spell trouble???

      I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS ;)

      Dude, if Sun wanted to give trouble all they have to do is to stop pouring money into OpenOffice and Java on Linux. I'd argue that Linux middleware market is almost entirely due to Java's ubiquitousness.

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    2. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by mslinux · · Score: 2, Insightful

      IBM opens up a few of their patents ( they have thousands, don't they? ) and Tridgell gets, deservely, funding to continue his work.

      Tridgell gets an academic-like job where he's called a 'fellow' while he does business programming that directly competes with companies such as MS and directly benefits IBM, HP, etc. One of the companies that pay for his 'research' is IBM. They (IBM) aren't a charity. And they don't do things because they have a big heart.

    3. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by Atzanteol · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hence everything is evil because somebody somewhere benefits from every action.

      Altruism is a myth. Take what you can get, and nevermind the reasons.

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      "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

      - Charles Darwin
    4. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by PornMaster · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Insignificant to what? We're still talking reselling hundreds of millions of dollars in MS licenses, which they won't be a part of. We've seen IBM unafraid to use Linux on the server side, but desktops are a different story. I think it's significant that they're changing the dynamics of their relationship with MS.

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    5. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by straponego · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If everything is selfish, the word "selfish" has no meaning. Words are supposed to communicate, define, delineate. If you've got a definition for a word that renders it completely useless, that's probably not the definition people are using.

    6. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by Atzanteol · · Score: 2, Funny

      You care to point out where I used the word "selfish"?

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    7. Re:There's gonna be trouble this year... by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 2, Informative

      Tridgell gets an academic-like job where he's called a 'fellow' while he does business programming

      Ain't nuthin special about being a "fellow."

      The employee designation "fellow" is commonly used by all the big corps (HP, IBM, GE, MS, you-name-it) for people who do cutting-edge type of work, pure research or not, which the company expects to eventually trickle down to their product lines. Nobody buys Samba from Tridgell, nobody buys Linux from Linus. But lots of people buy them in distributions and on hardware that OSDL member companies produce.

  6. For the mere mortal geeks by Rupy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OSDL = Open Source Development Labs
    See Wikipedia for more info

    1. Re:For the mere mortal geeks by armyofone · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. I still think they should consider changing it to OSJLA - The Open Source Justice League of America.

      But I'm not convinced that Linus, Andrew and the rest of the OSDL folks running around in tights and capes would be a good thing...

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      "A revolution without dancing is... a revolution not worth having"
    2. Re:For the mere mortal geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ummm... they're living and working in Beaverton, Oregon USA.

      Besides...
      Superman was from Krypton.
      Aquaman was from Atlantis
      Hawkman was from Thanagar
      Wonder Woman was from Paradise Island (Amazonia)

      They all didn't seem to have a problem being called the Justice League of America. Oh wait, that's right... they were just fictional characters in an age when Political Correctness hadn't yet reached such comic proportions, (pun intended).

      What was your point again?

  7. Excuse me, Simon... by ashitaka · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you add a great new feature such as supporting Windows machine accounts on Samba make sure your user community is aware that it will completely screw up rights assignments on your servers as the new machine accounts get assigned to old user UIDs by winbind.

    I just spent a harried morning resetting all files back to their correct owners and groups.

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    1. Re:Excuse me, Simon... by ashitaka · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You know how Winbind works with Samba right?

      You set a UID and GID range in smb.conf like so:

      winbind uid = 10000-20000
      winbind gid = 10000-20000

      So your user billg gets assigned UID 10004 for example.

      Now this is all running fine until you run up2date samba or do a manual upgrade and you get the new version that suppports machine accounts. All of a sudden 10004 is now the UID for MYDELLPC$ and Bill has lost access to his files.

      Lovely little gotcha.

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  8. While I'm glad to see he's back on his feet... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I'm still hoping he'll get back together with George Michael at some point for a reunion tour.

    Wait. Andrew *who*?

    Oh, never mind...

    1. Re:While I'm glad to see he's back on his feet... by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow. The joke was lame.

      But the fact that you actually know who "the other guy from Wham!" is, well thats indescribably lame.

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  9. What is OSDL by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know what it's purpose is, who founded it, etc.

    I'm wondering if it's an actual physical place. A place where Linus and Andrew are actually at. Or do they work at home from their underwear, and OSDL just sends them checks?

    I just like imagining a giant room full of cubicles, with only two occupied, with little nametags saying "Linus" and "Andrew".

    And Lumbergh coming buy every 45 minutes to say "Hmmmmmm.... You know what? I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday. Ok. Great. And we're putting cover sheets on all the kernel patches, ok? Great."

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  10. Alexandre Julliard said to join OSDL as fellow by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alexandre Julliard, of Wine fame, is rumored to be scheduled to join OSDL as a fellow in February. At that time OSDL, along with it's three fellows, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Tridgell, and Alexandre Julliard will announce a radically new direction for Linux, Samba, and Wine... to create Longhorn before Microsoft does.

    1. Re:Alexandre Julliard said to join OSDL as fellow by Almost-Retired · · Score: 2, Interesting

      to create Longhorn before Microsoft does

      Chuckle... The thought positively boggles the mind. Particularly since longhorn seems to be turning into a Duke Nukem Forever or Half Life 2 all by itself. With the latest ship date still quite some time in the future, and prospects for even more delays looking pretty good, who actually knows?

      However if the 3 of them can work together, I cannot see anything but public good come of it. I don't know a lot about Alexandre Julliard, but from the few messages I've had from Andrew (aka Tridg) over the years when I had samba questions for my amiga system long ago, I'm highly impressed. He has, I think, an outlook on computing thats much larger than just samba/cifs. That should mesh well with Linus.

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  11. "Tridge the Fridge - Cause he's cool" by dogsend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least that what was written on the refridgerator in the CS common room at uni (ANU).

    Tridge was held in high regard by all the students. Well grounded academically and socially.

  12. Re:Boycott Australia by aminorex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You deport Muslim converts to Christianity to certain death in Iran, and pregant Chinese women to certain forced abortion in China, and hold children in prisons in the desert separated from their families for years at a time. You're the descendents of a bunch of criminal transportees, and you really should be first against the wall when the eugenics campaign begins, because you're behaving like one would expect the descendents of murderous criminals to behave. Oh, and thank you for helping to kill a million innocent Iraqis too.

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