Kevin Bedell

Hello and welcome to another edition of LinuxWorld Magazine! As usual, we're excited about the great material we've been able to put together for you. Looking back over the last month, I was really struck by how the visibility and adoption of Linux and Open Source software have be... (more)

"Crossing the Line: Deciding to Fight For Integrity" Recently it's been confirmed that employees of the JBoss Group have been for some time been making anonymous and/or fake posts on various Java community sites. They've been aggressively promoting their platform by pretending to b... (more)

Kevin Bedell caught up with Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks, to ask him a few questions about his handy guide for Linux newbies and those with "command-line phobia." Did this book really begin life as a set of instructions to help your mother get started with Linux... (more)

Marc J. Rochkind wrote the first edition of Advanced UNIX Programming in 1984. In this installment of the Book Rookery, he discusses with Kevin Bedell the second edition - a complete revision that benefits from his years of post-Bell application systems development experience. Wh... (more)

We received some great news this past month. Our own Dee-Ann LeBlanc, known to regular readers as the Gaming Industry editor of LinuxWorld Magazine, was selected a winner of the 2003 Excellence in Technology Journalism by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Dee-Ann wo... (more)

I'm waiting for Linux's Steve Jobs to arrive. You know what I mean? A person who can take this technology and turn it into some amazing consumer products. "Insanely Great" products. "Insanely Great" was what Steve demanded of his engineers at Apple when they created the Mac toget... (more)

In this interview, LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell speaks with Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Mandrakesoft, about the success they've had over the past year...and how they plan to build upon it. LWM: Tell us a little bit about Mandrakesoft and how you got involved with them.  Franc... (more)

In this installment of the Book Rookery, Kevin Bedell speaks with LWM's own Dee-Ann LeBlanc about the latest edition of Linux for Dummies, which features expanded coverage of the Linux desktop, among other things. Can people without a lot of computer experience really install and ... (more)

With a new business desktop, a "Best Front Office Solution" award, and an expanding product line, things are looking good for Xandros. LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell spoke with Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein at LinuxWorld Expo; here he shares the history of Xandros and, more impor... (more)

In this installmant of the Book Rookery, LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell talks with Arnold Robbins about his new book, Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, which will be invaluable to those just learning to develop under Linux. Which programming languages are most po... (more)

Linux is among the most popular applications known as "free software" or "open source." Among other things, "open source" means that the source code for these applications is available to those who are interested in seeing (or modifying) it. This is unlike commercial applications... (more)

This lively discussion will take on the controversial questions that everyone is asking. What are the limits of Linux? How will Open Source change the industry? What opportunities and risks are associated with the rise of Open Source? Come join in the discussion, and pose the OS ... (more)

Whether you are a programmer, team leader, architect, or department manager, working as a member of an off-shore or distributed development team is different than working with the entire team in one place.   Documenting requirements is different. Communicating status is different... (more)

If you want to maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Linux, you'll want to check out Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition: The Complete Reference, by Richard Petersen and Ibrahim Haddad. In this Q&A, Kevin Bedell asks these experts a few questio... (more)

If you're like me, one of the most interesting things about following Linux is being constantly amazed at how many radically different directions you can see it going in. For example, in the last 30 days I've talked to people about Linux applications running on platforms ranging ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Jaldhar Vyas Debian developer. Listen to the interview ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interviews James Cox, Editor for Apress Listen to the interview ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Scott McNeil, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group Listen to the interview ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Mark Smith, Ph.D Managing Director of the Gelato Federation Listen to the interview ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Jim McQuillan and Ron Colcernian of the LTSP project. Listen to the interview ... (more)