Swapnil Bhartiya, Author at TFiR

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Matthias Ettrich: Creator Of KDE

The KDE 4.0, the latest version of KDE desktop environment, was released recently. On this occasion, we reached out to the founder of ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 18, 20120

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Exclusive Interview With ownCloud Founder Frank Karlitschek

ownCloud is one of the most promising and important projects as we are heading towards cloud-centric computing. Free Software users fought a long ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 14, 20120

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Miguel de Icaza: They Have Done A Very Good Job With Gnome 3 [Exclusive]

Miguel de Icaza is one of those celebrated figures of the Free Software/Open Source world who created technologies that changed the course of ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 13, 20120

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Simon Phipps: Freedom Doesn’t Have Any Lobbyists

Simon Phipps is a renowned computer scientist and web and open source advocate. Phipps was instrumental in IBM’s involvement in the Java programming ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 11, 20120

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Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron: Fedora Is More Than Just Software

Red Hat recently appointed Robyn Bergeron as the new Fedora Project Leader. In this exclusive interview Robyn talks about the upcoming release of ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 11, 20120

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Exclusive Interview: The Core Of ownCloud Will ALWAYS Remain Free And Open Source

The ownCloud project recently announce its evolution as a company. We reached out to the ownCloud team to understand the evolution of the ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 16, 20120

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Own Your Cloud: Interview With PageKite Founder

Cloud computing is the buzz word, even if most users don’t even fully understand what it is. One thing is for sure, putting ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 17, 20110

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Linux Mint Shakes Ubuntu, Replaces As The Top Distro

Yesterday we published about Linux Mint’s secret project for Gnome users and Clem’s claims that soon they will overtake Ubuntu. Seems like he ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 8, 20110

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Exclusive Interview With Linus Torvalds At LinuxCon Europe 2011

I have met and interviewed almost all of the leaders of the free software and Linux world. I interviewed Linus Torvalds, the father ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Secure Boot Is Good; But Can Be Used In Bad Ways

Swapnil: What do you think of Microsoft’s secure boot? Linus: I actually think secure boot makes a lot of sense. I think we ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Steve Jobs Was An Exceptional CEO

Swapnil: Steve Jobs passed away recently. Did you ever meet him? Linus: I met him. I had actually a meeting with him fairly ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Going To Court Is A Sign Of A Business That Is Dying

Swapnil: Microsoft continues to attack Linux and now they are attacking Android. What do you say about such attacks? Linus: I think they ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Why Linux Is Not Successful On Desktops

Swapnil: Linux is today dominating the world. It’s everywhere, except for the desktop. Why is Linux still struggling in the Desktop market? Linus: ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Open Source Is Also About Spreading, Distributing Vision

Swapnil: Linux is a massive project-how do you see the open source development model as a better model than the closed source model ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: Google with Android has really been very successful

Swapnil: What do you say about Android. There is a discussion that Android is not Linux. How much of Android is Linux and ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Linus Torvalds: I Don’t Have A Facebook Account, Google Plus Just Works Better For Me

Swapnil: You are quite active on Google+ now. You have never been that active on Facebook or Twitter, what is the reason, why ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Which Is Linus Torvalds’ Native Language: Finnish or Swedish?

Swapnil: What is your native language, Finnish or Swedish? Linus: Swedish is my mother tongue, so I grew up speaking Swedish in Finland. ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 2, 20110

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Panasonic’s Full HD LCD Home Theater Projector For Linux Users

Panasonic has announced the PT-AR100U Full High-Definition LCD Home Theater Projector with 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) resolution. Featuring 2,800 lumens of brightness ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaSeptember 6, 20110

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.NET, Mono Weren’t Really Needed: Ivan Čukić

Ivan is the creator of Lancelot the application launcher which is used in a majority of GNU-Linux distributions. We spoke to Ivan to ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJuly 29, 20110

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It’s Time For Customers To Challenge Oracle: EnterpriseDB

An exclusive interview with Robin Shumacher, Vice President, product management, EnterpriseDB. Swapnil: How would your define EnterpriseDB? Can you tell us more about ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJuly 15, 20110

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Exclusive Interview With Debian Leader Stefano Zacchiroli

Swapnil: Can you tell us a bit about yourself? How you got associated with computers? Stefano: With computers … wow, that’s quite some ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJune 10, 20110

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Exclusive Interview With KDE Developer

We spoke with KDE developer Shantanu Tushar to understand the plans for mobile devices. Muktware: What is the statues of Qt post Nokia’s ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJune 10, 20110

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Mark Shuttleworth Prefers GPL V3

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the world’s most popular GNU/Linux based operating system Ubuntu has won accolades by showing what the technology leaders ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMay 8, 20110

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Exclusive Interview With System 76 CEO Carl Richell

System 76 is one of the leading companies which offer Ubuntu as the pre-installed operating system on their PCs. The arrival of Ubuntu ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaApril 30, 20110

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Tomahawk Is The Future Of Music Players: Exclusive Interview

Tomahawk is a new music player which initially had an impression of yet another music player around the block. But the more I ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaApril 4, 20110

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Tim Burke: ext4 Is Not Going Anywhere Any Time Soon

Tim Burke, vice president, Linux Engineering at Red Hat, shares his thoughts about the new Linux kernel 2.6.38, how Red Hat is going ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMarch 19, 20110

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Luciana Fujii Pontello: The GNU/Linux Girl Who Says Cheese!

Daniel G Seigel, creator of Cheese, recently announced the new version of Cheese. He mentioned that the new version was driven by ‘three ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMarch 17, 20110

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Vincent Untz: I Wonder Why We Have All Our Distributions Around

The GNU/Linux landscape is changing dramatically. 2011 is a very important year for Gnome and GNU/Linux. Gnome is the default desktop environment used ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMarch 16, 20110

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IcedRobot Will Take Android Beyond Smartphones: Exclusive Interview

A group of developers has announced a project called IcedRobot which will make it possible to run Android apps on non-Android platforms. Something ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 16, 20110

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MariaDB Can’t Be Sold Like MySQL: Exclusive Interview

The recent spat between Oracle and the Hudson project, resulted in the fork of the project. It made us think what the future ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 4, 20110

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Exclusive Interview With Ubuntu Rock Star Jono Bacon

Jonathan Edward James Bacon or better known as Jono Bacon wears many hats. He is a writer, software developer, musician and a very ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 3, 20110

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Cross Platform Application Installer Meeting Could Mark A Milestone: Debian Project Leader

openSuse’s Vincent Untz organized a meeting around cross-platform application installer in Germany. The meeting was attended by developers representing major distros. Debian is ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaFebruary 1, 20110

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Other distros may adopt Ubuntu Software Center

openSUSE’s Vincent Untz organized a meeting in Germany around a cross-platform application installer. The meeting was attended by the representatives of major distros. ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 27, 20110

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Opera Has No Plans To Go Open Source: Exclusive Interview

Opera is one of those companies which is leading innovation in the Web Browser segment. Sadly, despite being one of the strongest proponents ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJanuary 17, 20110

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Exclusive Interview: Ubuntu Is The Number 1 Desktop OS

Ubuntu, the Canonical-sponsored operating system is gaining new grounds – in both enterprise and consumer segments. The Company now has new challenges — ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaNovember 29, 20100

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First interview with The Document Foundation

We approached TDF to understand the current situation and the future of Libre Office. Here is an interview with Italo Vignoli of The ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaOctober 24, 20100

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Interview with Stormy Peters

Swapnil: You’ve written in your blog: “I’m someone who thinks open source software is changing the way software works – bringing better technology ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaJuly 28, 20100

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A Quick Q ‘n’ A Session with Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg K-H is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch and is well known for his contributions to the Linux device ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaMay 25, 20100

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Nokia Has A Total Commitment To Linux: Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin, director, The Linux Foundation, shared with Swapnil Bhartiya his views about Nokia open sourcing the Symbian operating system. This interview was ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaApril 28, 20100

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Will Open Source Symbian Slow Linux Penetration?

Few months ago Nokia open sourced its Symbian Platform. It was a major change in the mobile operating system segment. We approached Todd ...

By Swapnil BhartiyaApril 28, 20100

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