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Bjorn Ekwall
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Bjorn Ekwall : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
Bjorn Ekwall, whose contributions to the Linux kernel
include D-Link drivers, likes to make sure that some of the people who
helped him discover and solve problems aren't forgotten. Hackers like
Joshua Kopper and Jacques Gelinas, to name a few, are among the first
Bjorn mentions.
There were a lot of other very skilled hackers involved ... and I tried
to make sure that all got credits for their contributions. I definitely
learned a lot from these guys.
Bjorn first got involved in Linux through his devotion to UNIX in the
late 1970s. Having worked on UNIX machines as a co-sysadmin, Bjorn had
little time for the Apples and PCs that started shipping (``just toys,''
he called them), but because proprietary Unices did not offer the
freedom or the source code Bjorn wanted, he had to rely on merely
collecting and building the parts of his very own UNIX machine, ``with
full source.''
It wasn't until 1992 that, while looking through comp.sources.unix
postings on Usenet, Bjorn first saw mention of Linux. After a bit of
independent research, he settled on an early Slackware distribution. ``I
think it was with the 0.99.3 kernel,'' Bjorn says. But his reaction was
epiphanic. ``It had all the sources! It even had X11! It fitted neatly
into my new 386SX/ 25 laptop with 5MB of memory!'' says Bjorn. ``It was
close enough to UNIX for me to give in completely!''
And ``give in'' he did. After developing a D-Link driver for the Linux
kernel to allow him to network with his laptop, and a few more projects
dealing with kernel downloadable modules, Bjorn sent snapshots of his
patches to Linus. ``He answered by putting the whole package up for FTP
together with the official kernel sources,'' Bjorn says. ``I admit that
I was a bit flattered. A lot, actually. Suddenly I had been promoted to
an official kernel developer/maintainer!''
The responses from fellow Linux hackers was something that made a
serious impression on Bjorn. He says,
the openness in the acceptance of new ideas and the ease of getting
quick and high-quality feedback is definitely the most important thing
about Linux, as far as I'm concerned. The basic rule, ``show me the
code'', is key, since it keeps in check those who have only opinions and
no solutions.
All the same, much of the Linux politicking tends to leave him cold.
Asked about commercialization, Bjorn says he has ``no problems
whatsoever'' with people making money from Linux, ``as long as Linux
stays open, which it will,'' he adds. Asked about Microsoft, Bjorn says
frankly that he doesn't care:
I'm only interested in getting access to an environment that fills my
needs, which is what my Linux-based system does. If I need something
completely new in my environment, then I will build it. If that is
useful for other people, then that's a nice side effect.
But when asked about life outside of computers ... now that's a
different story.
There is definitely a world outside of computers, and I try to enjoy it
as much as possible ... I do ``have a life,'' which includes my two
daughters, now aged 9 and 12. We have a lot of fun--when I'm not
working, that is.
Bjorn Ekwall's e-mail address is
bjorn@blox.se.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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