Here is an interview with Ubuntu’s Fabio Morzacca, “Ubuntu developer, but also member of the Italian Ubuntu LoCoTeam, father of two children, and for his employment, dealing with company management and reorganizations. We asked him questions about his personal life, his view on Linux and Ubuntu in particular, and about two applications of which he is the developer and maintainer: the BUM graphical Boot-Up Manager, and the Baobab graphical disk-space viewer.”
Ubuntu – it’s got a nice BUM
It’s nice to know who’s behind the great work in Free Software.
I like this kind of articles !
Thanks Fabio !
PS: Glad to see so many Italians behind the scenes 😉
Whose behind indeed.
Edited 2005-12-07 04:06
I exchanged email with Fabio a couple of times. He’s in the civil engineering business and doesn’t use computers except as an executive in his day job – which I can understand. But, he’s like this top executive – like a partner or something. You know, dresses in fine Italian suits and goes to work and everyone says good morning , sir.
So, he’s writing me and I find out he’s a seriously top executive and he’s telling me how Boot-up manager works like he’s a geek on IRC. He had no pretense but this sincere willingness to explain the boot up process in Linux.
It makes me wonder how many people like that exist. I mean, how many long-term, older executives have taken up Linux as a hobby? I know one other guy for sure. He retired from a Fortune 20 company as the Global Chief Operations Office. He programs Linux.
I wish I knew of more executives, that would make these CIO’s who poo-poo Linux rethink their minds.
Damn this is great!
“So, he’s writing me and I find out he’s a seriously top executive and he’s telling me how Boot-up manager works like he’s a geek on IRC. He had no pretense but this sincere willingness to explain the boot up process in Linux. ”
Maybe after reading this interview, all the PHB(E) comments will get the real-world (-1) moderation they deserve?
Maybe after wiping the smudge off your glass stomach, so you can see again you’ll continue to get the real world who believe exists -3. Crack head.
I would retire too… if only Linux could give me enough money to pay my house rent.
first of all i like italian food
anything with C** or I** is potentially capitalistique.. alors j’hais those pesos.. u understood.. GNU/Linux is about revolution, and I dont expect a revolution started by CEOs, CIOs or IBMs (a.k. SÃœNs).. if you just want an evolution.. just go for OpenSolaris, MS Lindows or whatever..
dont believe yuppies, jerks or whatever.. or did you believe *** aristocrats settling communism in europe?
i just laugh about those berlusconis, bushis, beleers
cu morks
#error is teh only language tey understand/understood and they are going to understand..
Banning the word “j e w i s h” from this website is indeed wrong.
As is claiming communism was sold by *** Aristocrats.
There’s a line between a stupid opinion and hate speech, and it was crossed.
Yes, *** probably shouldn’t be censored at all. Unfortunately the topic was raised with an example that would back up the decision…
Sad.
Yes, but banning the word itself suggests that it is insulting on its own. That’s absolutely unacceptable.
*** == j e w i s h
but i could write judenschweine
what is bad/mad about that j* word?
these censorship is sh*tty
This was an interesting interview, and I think Thom was right to link it, but it reminds me (again) of the shoddy quality of pretty much everything on LXer. Quoth the article:
LXer: About Baobab: I discovered this is a big Indian tree. How did you came up with the name, since it isn’t a common name?
Baobabs are native to Madagascar, Africa, and Australia. Definitely not Indian. LXer seems to have very incompetent editors.
You give them CDs or DVDs, you tell them that everything is free and legal, including thousands of apps, you tell them that Linux is better than Windows (expecially 98 or ME that so many are still using)…And yet you fail to convince them: “Oh, but I need MS Office”
They won’t believe that OpenOffice 2.0 is an excellent replacement, even if they are using a pirated copy of Office 2000.
But even the development of linux isn’t that great: QiLinux, have you ever heard of it? And if you tried it, did you like it? Or EduKnoppix? Yes, nice, but for God’s sake, still based on Knoppix 3.6?
Also I have read a bit too often of smaller OSS projects started by Italian developers and never completed.
End of rant about my fellow countrymen 🙂
Were you trying to type “jew”?
Is that censored?