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Olaf Kirch
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Olaf Kirch : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
 Olaf
discovered Linux while writing his master's thesis in mathematics. He
says, ``Linux was so cool that I ended up spending a lot more time on it
than on gnawing pencils over my theorems.'' He did finish the thesis
eventually and went on to write the The Linux Network Administrators'
Guide (first published in 1993). This was his first Linux project, and
it has since gone to paperback and no doubt sits on many a system
administrator's desk.
Attracted to Linux by the lack of an ``initial'' hierarchy, Olaf worked
with Jeff Uphoff on the first Linux security list, then turned his
efforts toward Linux NFS implementation. He has maintained the user
space NFS daemon for the past five years, but has ``toned down'' his
overall involvement to spend more time with his wife Maren and their
18-month-old daughter.
Looking back on the early days, Olaf was struck by ``the cooperative
spirit that reinforced itself.'' Nothing has changed there. The
community has always been the driving force behind Linux. The Internet
has always helped to connect to the community. Back then, Olaf relates,
``it [the Internet] felt like giving money-grubbing UNIX vendors the
finger.'' He credits not wanting to pay hundreds of dollars for inferior
software as a key factor that drove early Linux development.
As for the future of Linux, Olaf is hopeful that the major Linux
distributors will adopt the Linux Standard Base definition. Olaf sees
platform differences between the various distributions as an increasing
obstacle to software vendors entering the market. He believes that
``once LSB is finished and accepted, there will be a common base
platform for porting commercial software to Linux, and we will
experience a surge in new software being made available on Linux.''
He currently works for Caldera, doing ``security and a lot of network
stuff, as well as developing an admin tool framework.'' Working for
Caldera affords him an opportunity he did not dream of eight years ago:
being paid to work on Linux.
Olaf can be reached at okir@caldera.de.
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