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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."

8 of 112 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ;)

  4. 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"
  5. 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."

    --
    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  6. 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.

  7. 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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    If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.