While Linux in its strictest sense refers only to the kernel itself, it is normally associated with full-fledged system, i.e. Linux kernel bundled with wide range of freely distributable softwares, many of them from GNU Project.

This is an attempt to collect the (ever increasing) media interviews of Linus Torvalds, the creator and chief maintainer of Linux.

• PCWeek Webcast [15 Nov 99] - Keynote speech at Fall '99 Comdex as well as 5 min. exclusive interview 
• Linux Journal [12 Oct 99] - transcript from "Linux for Suits", by Doc Searls Recommended.
• Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast [June 99]: Linus' speech at USENIX 99 BOF, available in text or video (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 . . . you need G2 Player to see these.)
• PC World  [18 June 99] Recommended.
• Technology News [16 June 99] - An article on Linus' remark at Bay Area Linux Users Group, by Malcolm Maclachlan
• Fatbrain.com [May 99] Highly Recommended.
• Austin360.com [19 Apr 99] - A brief interview by Michael Kanell
• VARBusiness  [12 Apr 99] - by L. Aragon & M.A. De Bellis
• TIME [22 Mar 99] - by Peggy Salz-Trautman
• LinuxWorld [12 Mar 99] - by R. McMillan & N. Mikes
• PC Week [28 Jan 99] - by Scott Berinato
   
• Computer Reseller News [7 Dec 98] - by Alison Diana
• LinuxWorld [16 Oct 98] - by Robert McMillan
• EE Times [27 Oct 98] - by Craig Matsumoto
• TIME [26 Oct 98] - An article on Linus, by Janice Maloney
• Dallas Morning News [6 Oct 98] - by Elizabeth Simnacher
• ZDNN [30 Sep 98] - available only in RealVideo [you may experience bandwidth problem]
• Computing World [17 Aug 98] - by Galen Gruman & David Orenstein
• San Francisco Examiner [2 Aug 98] - by Rebecca Eisenberg
• SunWorld [Aug 98] - by Robert McMillan. Including his thoughts on Java
• c't [July 98] - by Jürgen Schmidt (translated from German)
• bootNet [July 98] - Extremely enjoyable stuff
• InfoWorld [8 June 98] - by Michael Vizard
• crn.com [30 May 98] - Brief article by Stuart Glascock
• TechWeb [7 Apr 98] available in: RealAudio or Text - by David Sims
• Linux Focus [Mar 98] - by Manuel Martinez
• First Monday [Vol.3 #3, 2 Mar 98] - by Rishab Ghosh
• Linux Gazette [Feb 98] - by Alessandro Rubini [#32, Sep 98]
   
• Tokyo Linux User Group [Sep 97] - by Hiro Yamagata. Recommended.
• MetroActive [May 97] - by Michael Learmonth
• Linux Journal [#29, Sep 96] - by Phil Hughes & Gena Shurtleff
• Linux Journal [#9, Jan 95] - by Belinda Frazier
• Linux Journal [#1, Mar 94] - by Robert Young
• Meta [Oct 93] - A vintage email interview from ver. 0.99 era (from Linux Archive in Passauer Knoten). Recommended.

Comparison, Usage & Advocacy

Dare to Compare

• Microsoft Myths - by Leon Brooks, a response to (and a parody of) the notorious Linux Myth page by Microsoft.
• NT versus Linux for small-business networking - by Joyce Park, osOpinion [8 July 99]
• Mixed Double - Linux and NT as Web Server on the Test Bed - by Jürgen Schmidt (translation: E. Wolfram), c't [#13/99, June 99]
• Linux Vs. NT: Head To Head - by J. Tibbetts & B. Bernstein, CMP's TechWeb [28 June 99]
• Linux 2.2 Gives NT a Run for Its Money--for Free - by Neil Randall, PC Magazine [8 June 99]
• Linux vs. NT, a counterpoint - by Paul Thurrott, WinInfo [19 May 99]
• Linux Versus NT - by Paul Boutin, HotWired [13 May 99]
• Test show more than numbers - In this benchmarking test "(Linux) showed it needs improvement in several key areas." By H. Baltazar, PC Week [10 May 99]
• NOS crossroads - by Pankaj Chowdhry, PC Week [10 May 99]
• Latest FUD tactic may be backfiring - by Eric Raymond, Linux Today [23 Apr 99]
• Linux Love Fest ... VARs Look to Push OS Into Enterprise - a survey of 200 resellers, by S. Glascock & J. Roberts, Computer Reseller News [18 Jan 98]
• A PRNewswire Report on IDC's Server Operating Environments, NewsALERT [18 Jan 98]
• Penguin Attack! ... or a tale of flightless waterfowls - for M.C.S.E. types , by Jim Severino [Jan 98]
• Linux Community Survey: Result - by WebCMO. Also: 2nd Report
• Linux shipments up 212 percent - by S. Shankland, CNET News.Com [16 Dec 98]
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 vs UNIX - by John Kirch [Updated: Dec 98]
• Linux legitimacy rallies NT skeptics - by R. S. Raynovich & P. Sprenger, LAN Times Online [Aug 98]
• Linux vs NT: Engineers Speak Out Part1 & Part2 - by M. Shohat, ISD [July/Aug 98]
• Linux vs NT Shootout [16 June 98] - Available in RealAudio or Text
• Replacing Windows NT Server with Linux - by Quinn Coldiron

Linux in Use

• Distance learning...powered by Linux - by Liz Warren, Computer Weekly [18 Nov 99] 
• Amused with Linux - an article on the switch to Linux by the UK government's (including the British Monarchy) websites, from The Times [18 Oct 99]
• Linux Outside the Fortune 500 ... or Is it Right for Your Small Business? - by William von Hagen, OfficeCommunity.com [Oct 99]
• Linux scores at Wimbledon - from developerWorks
• Feeling Lucky? - an article on web-search site "Google" by Evan Leibovitch, ZDNet [23 July 99]
• Linux for mission-critical apps? Not so crazy - by Anne Chen, PC Week [5 July 99]
• Linux Takes Flight on Northwest Simulators - by David Orenstein, ComputerWorld [24 May 99]
• Plugged In: Linux Showing Up In Supercomputers - by Therese Pletti, Reuters [19 Apr 99] (from San Jose Mercury News' SiliconValley.com)
• Salon gets a full-body makeover - by Beth Lipton, CNET News.Com [5 Apr 99]
• Linux growth snowballs as big boys join the throng - by E. Cresswell, L. Mason & C. Neshevich, ComputorWorld Today [26 Feb 99]
• Viva La Revolución - an article about huge "Scholar Net" project, by E. Harrison, Computer Bits [Jan 99]
• Project Heresy - Brian Cooley & Dan Shafer discuss their on-going effort to adopt Linux, a great series on CNET Radio
• Linux: Back door to the front office - what IT administrators are saying, by Scott Berinato, PCWeek Online [13 Nov 98]
• Due South with the British Antarctic Survey - by C. Donlon & J. Crawshaw, Linux Journal [#51, July 98]
• Grassroots Linux grows - by Sarah Varney, InfoWorld [8 June 98]
• Linux powers many area businesses - by Dana Blankenhorn, Chicago Tribune [5 June 98]
• Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life - by Daryll Strauss, Linux Journal [#46, Feb 98]
• Linux Out of the Real World - by Sebastian Kuzminsky, a recount of Linux aboard the Space Shuttle, Linux Journal [#39, July 97]

Linux Advocacy

• Celebrating 'Linux Myths' ... or The story the trade press missed -- finally - by Nicholas Petreley of LinuxWorld [7 Oct 99]
• The post-FUD era has begun - by Evan Leibovitch. Another response to recent remarks by Bob Metcalfe (see below), ZDNet [2 Aug 99]
• The Boy Who Cried "FUD!" - by Kevin Holmes, osOpinion [19 July 99]
• Here's an interesting showdown between two InfoWorld columnists... Bob Metcalfe [19 June 99] vs. Nicholas Petreley [26 June 99]
• Mindcraft Redux: On Mindcraft's April 1999 Benchmark - by Dan Kegel [Updated: 27 May 99]
• What we have here is a failure to communicate... - an article concerning naming convention of Linux distributions (ie, Linux vs GNU/Linux), by Evan Leibovitch, ZDNet[20 May 99]
• Stop the Mindcraft madness ... or You can't fight FUD with fact - by Nicholas Petreley of LinuxWorld [7 May 99]
• ESR and the Mindcraft Fiasco - from slashdot [23 Apr 99]
• FEE, FI, FOE, FUD - by Nathan Cochrane, Linux Today [5 Apr 99]
• Dispelling the Kernel Compiling Myth - by Jean Martinez, Linux Gazette [#37, Feb 99]
• Six Lies About Linux - a rebuttal against FUDs, by Aaron Hsiao of About.com (Focus on Linux) [7 Dec 98]
• The Linux FUD factor FAQ - by Roger Irwin [Nov 98]
• Linux Myth Dispeller - by Kenneth Kinder
• The four phases of Linux acceptance - by Evan Leibovitch, from Xunil Pages
• Towards World Domination - by Chris Tyler, Slashdot [4 June 98]
• Harnessing the Linux Labor Force - by Stan Seibert, Slashdot [7 May 98]
• Advocating Linux - by Lars Wirzenius [16 Aug 96]

Articles on Linux

• Linux in Global Consulting Practices - by Tom Adelstein, Consulting Times 
• A penguine's-eye view of Comdex - by Evan Leibovitch, ZDNet [22 Nov 99] 
• Can Linux Pass the CIO Test? - by Kimberly Hill, intraware [June 99]
• Is It Time for Linux - by Greg Shipley, Network Computing [31 May 99] Highly Recommended.
• Training is the Next Battleground for Linux - by Amara Angelica, TechWeek [17 May 99]
• Why Linux needs help - by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com [15 Apr 99]
• Linux, The Opposite of Windows - by Kim Komando, Popular Mechanics [Apr 99]
• Should you join the freeware revolution? - by Derek Slater, CNN interactive [19 Mar 99]
• The Big Leagues - by Aaron Hsiao of About.com (Focus on Linux) [25 Feb 99]
• The Rebel Code - by Amy Harmon, New York Times [21 Feb 99]
• Onward - by Christina Dyrness. A six pages article from the perspectives of business & finance, TECHcapital [Jan/Feb 99]
• Code Warriors - a decent article by Steven Levy, Newsweek [18 Jan 98]
• Love That Linux - by Amy Johnson, CIO Magazine [1 Dec 98]
• Linux quiets the cynics - by Kym Gilhooly, Service News [Dec 98]
• Linux Takes Off - by Martin Garvey, Techweb [16 Nov 98]
• Linux: upstart OS gets some respect - an introductory article by Cormac Foster, CNET [2 Nov 98]
• Linux: All systems are go - by Dennis Howlet, computing net [17 Sep 98]
• The little operating system that could - by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com [26 June 98]
• Linux OS, in RealAudio - from NPR [All Things Considered, 8 Apr 98]

Halloween Documents

• The original, II, III, IV - by Eric Raymond (and Microsoft, of course) The first two are Must Read.
• Press coverage of Halloween Documents can be found in this page from the Open Source website

Selected Documents on Open Source

• Open Source Definition - from OpenSource.Org
• There's also a write-up on Open Source Definition by Bruce Perens. (An excerpt from Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, published by O'Reilly & Associates.)
   
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - by Eric Raymond. This epoch making analysis was originally delivered as a speech in May 97. Must Read.
• The Risks of Closed Source Computing - by Alan Cox, osOpinion [22 Oct 99]

Other Write-ups

• Q&A: Tim O'Reilly - from sendmail.net
• Interview with Jon "maddog" Hall - by Steve Brody, developerWorks [Oct 99]
• Are the Smaller Distributions a Force for Good or Bad? - by Christian Schaller, linuxpower.org [30 July 99]
• Into the Belly of the Beast - A short recount on Eric Raymond's visit to Microsoft, by N. Jacobowitz & M. Dockrey
• The Eric S. Raymond Interview - from Linux.com [18 May 99]
• Words of a maddog - an interview with John 'maddog' Hall by Dave Whitinger of Linux Today [19 Apr 99]
• Linux appeared on ... Dilbert!! Part I, Part II ( I just HAD TO include it here. :-)
• LWN/Changelog interviews Alan Cox:  Part I [Jan 99] , Part II [Apr 99]
• Glory among the Geeks - by Peter Wayner, Salon.com [Jan 99]
• Unix redux? ... or Why Linux won't make like Unix and split - by Bob Young, LinuxWorld [28 Jan 99]
• Linux and the monopoly game - by Nicholas Petreley, LinuxWorld [29 Jan 99]
• 1998 Linux timeline - a nicely done roundup of the year, from LWN [Dec 98]
• Newsmaker: Robert F. Young - an interview of RedHat President by David Carr, Internet World [9 Nov 98]
• Linux Anecdotes - by Lars Wirzenius
• Online forum with Alan Cox - moderated by Phillip Smith, some.net [20 June 98]
   
• Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ - by Eric Raymond
• The Transmeta Enigma - by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com [May 98]

Linux Technical Archive

Linux Kernel General Documentation & Articles

• The story of the Linux kernel - by Linus Torvalds, LinuxWorld [26 Mar 99] (An excerpt from Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, published by O'Reilly & Associates.) Must Read.
   
• The Linux Kernel HOWTO - by Brian Ward, from LDP
• The unofficial linux-kernel mailing list FAQ - by a herd of linux kernel wizards
• Question not to ask on linux-kernel - by C. Ananian, LWN [May 98]
• Linux Kernel Version History - by Riley. Gives the size & dates of all kernel tarballs.
• Linux Kernel Size Graphs - by George. Shows the size of compressed kernel archives.
• The Linux Kernel - by David Rusling. Still being worked on,but extremely well written.
• The Linux Kernel Hacker's Guide - by Michael Johnson

Kernel Ver. 2.4

• Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 - by Joseph Pranevich, LWN [7 Oct 99]

Kernel Ver. 2.2

• Linux 2.2 Changes - based on kernel source documentation, KernelNotes.org
• Moving to kernel 2.2 - by Jon Niehof [Apr 99]
• Compiling Linux 2.2 Kernel - by Henry Kingman, ZDNet [Feb 99]
• Upgrading to the 2.2.x Linux Kernel on Red Hat Linux 5.2 systems - from Red Hat Support [19 Feb 99]
• The New Linux Kernel 2.2 - by Thomas Vaughan, 32BitsOnline [2 Feb 99]
• Linux gets more business-friendly - by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.Com [22 Jan 99]
• Linux kernel 2.2 explained - by Dave Whitinger of Linux Today [21 Jan 99]

Standardization Issues

Various vendors and organizations, including Red Hat, Caldera, Suse, Pacific HiTech, and the Debian Project, are participating in the effort. LSB is currently chaired by Daniel Quinlan of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS, see below) fame.

• The Linux Standard Base (LSB) - A Project Proposal, LWN [28 May 98]
• LSB Specification Proposals:
  • Linux Standard Base Specification 0.1
  • Shared Libraries and naming conventions - by Dale Scheetz
  • Cron Jobs - by Daniel Quinlan
  • Standard run levels - by Daniel Quinlan
  • Init File Actions - by Daniel Quinlan
  • LSB Commands and Utilities - by Jakob Kaivo (first pass done)
• LSB FHS 2.0 - LSB draft proposal by Andrew Josey. It makes several extensions over the FHS 2.0 specification.

Recently, quite a few articles on standardization issues in Linux have appeared:

• Transcript of remarks of Stuart Anderson - a July 99 speech on recent LSB activities, from the website of Suncoast LUG
• The Past and Future of Linux Standards - by Daniel Quinlan, Linux Journal [#62, June 99] (from LSB's archive)
• The Distributions Take a Stand on Standards - by Norman Jacobowitz, Linux Journal [#62, June 99]
• Challenges ahead for the Linux Standard Base - by Rachel Chalmers, LinuxWorld [23 Apr 99]
• Editorials on LSB at Freshmeat - Important stuff from important folks.
• Standards and more standards - by Terry Griffin, Computer Bits [Nov 98]

Related documents of interest:

• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.0 - by Daniel Quinlan. This is the successor of FSSTND 1.2, the previous standard.
• Single UNIX Specification, Version 2: 6 Vol set for UNIX 98 - one time free registration is required, from The Open Group

Desktop - Graphical User Interface (GUI) & Key Apps

GNOME & GTK+

• GNOME: Getting Started - from GNOME Project
• The GNOME Project - by Miguel de Icaza, from Linux Gazette [#35, Dec 98]
• GNOME FAQ - by Todd Graham Lewis
• GNOME User's Guide - by David Mason & David Wheeler
• GNOME Technologies: A Brief Description of The Technology Behind GNOME - by David Mason
• GNOME Programming Guidelines - by Federico Mena Quintero & Miguel de Icaza
• Components in the GNOME Project - by Miguel de Icaza & Jonathan Blandford
• GNOME 1.0 Library Roadmap - by Michael Fulbright
   
• GTK+ Reference - by Peter Mattis and the GTK+ team
• GTK+ Tutorial - by Ian Main and Tony Gale
• Drag-and-Drop in GTK+ and GNOME - by Owen Taylor
• Internationalization in GTK+ - by Owen Taylor

KDE

• An Invitation to KDE - by the KDE Team
• KDE FAQ - by Matthias Hölzer and Bernd Johannes Wuebben
• The KDE Style Guide - maintained by Richard Moore
• The KDE Style Book - by Mark Donohoe
• KDE Resource and Style Management - by Mark Donohoe
• The KDE Key Bindings Standard - by Stefan Taferner

GUI Reviews

• KDE 2.0 in action - by Daniel Duley (mosfet@jorsm.com) 
• A First Look at GNOME 1.0 - by Tim Ellis, linuxpower.org [Apr 99]
• Battle for the Common Desktop - TriTeal CDE vs GNOME - by Paul Ferris, 32BitsOnline [Apr 99]
• There's no place like GNOME - by Nicholas Petreley of LinuxWorld [2 Apr 99]
• KDE 1.1: Is this the answer to the Desktop problem? - by Aruthur Johnson II, Ext2 [Apr 99]
• The Gnome 1.0 Release - by Aaron Hsiao of About.com (Focus on Linux) [Mar 99]
• K Desktop Environment 1.1 - by Caeser, Ars Technica [Mar 99]
• GTK+ : The Future of X Applications? - by Scott Stone, PC Help [16 Dec 98]

Key Applications

• KOffice: The Killer App of 2000 - a short review of an alpha version by Arthur Johnson II, Ext2 [May 99]
• Hunting for the corporate desktop - an article on SuSE Linux Office Suite 99 by L. Grizno, LinuxWorld [13 Nov 98]
   
• Browsing the browsers - a comparison of 21 browsers available on Linux, by Ricardo Igarashi, Linux in Brazil
   
• Integrator - VMware 1.0: Windows with Linux - by Peter Siering (translation: E. Wolfram), c't [#14/99, July 99]
• Test Drive: VMware for Linux - by Geir Nielsen, 32BitsOnline [June 99]
• VMware runs Windows under Linux - a product review by Kevin Railsback, InfoWorld [7 June 99]
   
• WordPerfect 8 for Linux - by William Henning of CPU Review [2 Aug 99]
   
• Tux's secret obsession - Gaming under Linux - by Harald Radke, Linux Focus [Nov 99] 
• A whole new civilization built on Linux - a review of Civilization: Call to Power by Rawn Shah, LinuxWorld [30 June 99]
• Penguins Play Games, Too - an interview with Loki Entertainment's Draeker, from Adrenaline Vault [12 June 99]
• Linux and MP3s - by Rob Bos, 32BitsOnline [3 June 99]

Security Issues

• Securing Linux: The First Steps - by Peter Lukas, from Linux Gazette [#47, Nov 99] 
• Securing Linux - A nice introductory series by Michael Warfield, appearing on LinuxWorld: Part 1 [28 May 99], Part 2 [6 July 99]
• Armoring Linux - an article covering the basics of securing a Linux box, by Lance Spitzner
• Securing your root account with Linux - from SecurityPortal.com [7 June 99]
   
• Security for the Home Network - by J. Pollman & Bill Mote, from Linux Gazette [#46, Oct 99]
• Security, Privacy, and Encryption on Linux - by Philo Vivero, linuxpower.org [July 99]
• Top Open-Source Security Tools for UNIX - by Nalneesh Gaur, Performance Computing [July 99]
• Securing your File System in Linux - from SecurityPortal.com [14 June 99]

More Technical Writings

Looking Onward

• Configurable Access Control Effort from Science Applications International, with a brief Introduction to Access Control, and an overview of Access Control Methods
• Where Does Linux Want to go Today? - by E. Caldwell, 32BitsOnline [Mar 99]
• "Future of Linux" - 2 reports by Ben Spade (SVLUG) and Greg Roelofs
• Next stop, the desktop? - by Chip Brookshaw, InfoWorld [18 Jan 99]
• Linux Next Generation - A featured article from focus on linux  [18 Nov 97]
   
• Y2K and Linux - by Chris Tyler, ext2 [July 99]
• Consumer FAQ: Is Linux Y2K compliant? - from ZDY2K.com [1 Mar 99]
• Linux and Year 2000 - by UK.Linux.Org

Software Development

• Software Release Practice HOWTO - by Eric Raymond, from LDP
• Software Building-HOWTO - by Mendel Leo Cooper, from LDP
• CVS RCS HOWTO - by Alavoor Vasudevan, from LDP 
• GCC HOWTO - by Daniel Barlow, from LDP
• Assembly HOWTO - by François-René Rideau, from LDP
   
• A comparison of Linux integrated development environments - by Sam Mikes, LinuxWorld [22 July 99]
• Windows vs Linux: A programmers perspective - by Michael Wilkinson, osOpinion [2 July 99]
• Linux development: CLI, Emacs, or IDE? - by Joe Barr, LinuxWorld [2 June 99]
• Getting Started with Java on Linux - by Joe Sokolosky, LD.N Journal [July 99]
• A Cup of Java - With 2 Lumps of Linux - by Jeffery Cann, Unix World

Server-side Applications

• A comparison of 4 databases - featuring Oracle, Informix, Mysql & Postgresql, by Mark Kirkwood
   
• How to get Oracle up and running on your Linux box - by Uche Ogbuji, LinuxWorld [4 June 99]
• Oracle HOWTO - by Paul Haigh, from LDP
• PostgreSQL HOWTO - by Al Dev, from LDP
• Academic's Tool Grows Up - PostgreSQL - by Corey Huinker, 32BitsOnline [2 Dec 99] 
• Ingress II HOWTO - by Pal Domokos, from LDP
• Linux and Informix - by Phil Hughes, a.k.a. "they just typed make", from Linux Journal

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