Since october 2001, hohndel has been the chief linux and open source technologist at intel, prior to that he was dirk intel the cto of suse from 1995 until 2001. Today, suse linux and ibm announced a marketing agreement to ship singlecd versions of suse linux 7. Before joining vmware, dirk spent almost 15 years as intels chief linux and open source technologist. Dirk hohndel has left intel corp after being their chief linux and opensource technologist the past number of years. Among other roles, he worked as chief technology officer of suse and as vice president of the xfree86 project, inc. After three years in the management team of suse linux, dirk hohndel announced his decision to leave the company. Hohndel has been an active developer and contributor in the linux space since its earliest days, and has worked professionally in the suse and xfree86. Before that, among other roles, he worked as chief technology officer of suse and unix architect of deutsche bank. He was the longtime chief technology officer of the original suse linux ag organization and later headed open source efforts at intel for 15. The oftenanimated conversation between panel members linus torvalds linux, transmeta, brian behlendorf apache, collabnet, larry augustin va linux. Sap has very positive experiences with linux as a reliable, stable, and scalable platform for ebusiness solutions in international operations, said harald kuck, head of internet server development at sap. Suse clarifies linux on the desktop statement slashdot. The startup guide leads you through the installation and basic configuration of your system, including help and advice in troubleshooting it also introduces basic linux concepts such as.
Also, said suse president dirk hohndel, it creates healthy competition, which furthers innovation. See what dirk hohndel will be attending and learn more about the event taking place jun 19 20, 2017 in beijing, china. Open source company suse has taken a potshot at cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor vmware, contrasting the latters proprietary, closedsource offering with the openstack cloud tha. Here is an application packaged as an appimage for you to try.
Open source summit north america 2018 has ended create your own event. Zdnet uk continues its talk with suse s dirk hohndel. Computers, technology, and science are the topics featured here. Opensource software vendor suse linux ag has named a new ceo for the second time since july in the final step of its recent restructuring.
Before that, he worked as chief technology officer of suse and unix architect of deutsche bank. Dirk hohndel and fabian herschel suse rheinmain ag abstract the paper describes how to allow a customized automated installation of linux. Linux foundation gold members elect representatives to. Since october 2001, hohndel has been the chief linux and open source technologist at intel, prior to that he wasdirk intel the cto of suse from 1995 until. Suse enterprise linux, opensuse, fedora and centos are based on rpm, while the debian family, including ubuntu, linux mint, elementary os are based on deb. Automated installation of linux systems using yast dirk hohndel and fabian herschel, suse rheinmain ag. This page was last modified on 10 august 2017, at 20. Dirk worked among other roles as intels chief linux and open source technologist, as chief technology officer of suse, and unix architect of deutsche. It is in this context that suse follows the developments in the handheld arena with great. Mar 22, 2019 open source company suse has taken a potshot at cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor vmware, contrasting the latters proprietary, closedsource offering with the openstack cloud tha. The article simply says that dirk steps away from suse to pursue his personal and professional interests. This is my personal account, most of this is not related to my day job. Get the latest generation of enterprise linux os with the reliability of. The announcement sounds upbeat, and we wonder how dirk hohndel, former suse cto must feel about that.
Jt smith by tina gasperson a press release at suse. I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my linux desktop system just like i would do with a windows or mac application. In an interview with cnet, dirk hohndel, chief technology officer of germanys suse, describes his companys plans for making money the oldfashioned opensource way. Vmwares dirk hohndel on linux and open source software.
Check out what dirk hohndel will be attending at open source summit north america 2018. It is not expected to change in any significant way until its next annual release. Dirk has been an active developer and contributor in the linux space since its earliest days. For example, suse has long worked with users such as banks and telecommunications companies, and connectiva has focused on south america. Vmware appoints dirk hohndel as chief open source officer.
San francisco, april 18, 2017 the linux foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the appointment of hisao munakata of renesas and dirk hohndel of vmware to its board of directors. This is the download area of the opensuse distribution and the opensuse build service. Presentations from elc 2016 lf conference archive the linux foundation has a video playlist on youtube note. According to this press release, dirk hohndel, suse cto and president has left suse. Dirk hohndel is vp and chief open source officer at vmware, where he works on strategies around linux, containers, kubernetes, and other open source software.
Check out what dirk hohndel will be attending at linuxcon containercon cloudopen china. Suse linux views kde 2 as one of the key milestones to vault linux to the same landslide success on the desktop that it already has in the server space, added dirk hohndel, cto of suse ag. It goes on to say that his departure from suse comes at a time when suse gathers its f. He currently is a member of the board of the linux foundation. At publication time, the suse web site still shows suse as a preorder item. Dirk hohndel, author at open source blog vmware blogs. All things linux and gnulinux this is neither a community exclusively about the kernel linux, nor is exclusively about the gnu operating system. Dirk hohndel dirk is intels chief linux and open source technologist.
An interview with suse cto dirk hohndel jeffrey carl. Gui contenders are sparring for the linux desktop it world. Dirk hohndel, chief linux and open source technologist, intel corporation. Listen to weekly interviews with leading scientists and technologists in the berkeley groks collection. However, dirk hohndel, president of suse inc in oakland, ca, told mozillaquest magazine just before publication that the online suse shop shall be switched over to7. Dirk hohndel formerly intel, now vmware has become the master spinner of an infamous violator of the gpl, a proprietary software company with nsa back doors evidence shown in edward snowdens cachetrove of leaks. Vmwares chief open source officer dirk hohndel discusses his new role. Dirk hohndel leaves intel to become vmwares chief open source. Hohndel stressed, however, that suse s core business targets will remain the server and desktop markets.
He leads the companys open source program office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open source projects and driving common values and processes across the company for vmwares interaction with the open source communities. At this years desktop summit, hohndel will give the opening keynote about the role that large companies play in open source, and how the open source community can work effectively with them. Vmware appoints dirk hohndel as chief open source officer by published. This is crucial in order to position suse as a truly global player, said dirk hohndel, cto of suse linux ag. Although the 20year anniversary of linux has been addressed many times over the course of 2011, hohndel took his own approach, a personal perspective from a developer present at the beginning of the process and has. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover dirk s. At the recent san diego kubecon, vmware vp and chief open source officer dirk hohndel sat down for a conversation with swapnil bhartiya, founder and editor of emerging technology magazine the fourth industrial revolution tfir.
See what dirk hohndel will be attending and learn more about the event taking place aug 27 31, 2018 in vancouver, bc, canada. Working on the next thing that intel will do in and around open source. After three years in the management team of suse linux, dirk hohndel announced his decision to leave the. According to dirk hohndel, vp and chief open source officer at vmware, linus law still works, but there are larger software development issues that impact both open source as well as closed source code that are of equal or greater importance. Dirk hohndel, chief technology officer with suse linux, talks about intels trillium project, the advent of 64bit computing and the paradigm shift that open source represents. As he sacrificed spending the 4th of july with his family for this, we were anxious to talk to him.
The following interview is part of a series, called open source leaders, where we profile project leaders in the open source it community, to learn more about how they developed their software as well as the challenges and benefits that come with running an open source project. The dvdusb stick is typically recommended as it contains most of the packages available in the distribution and does not require a network connection during the. Dirk has been an active developer and contributor to several. Dirk hohndel open source summit north america 2018. Gui contenders are sparring for the linux desktop douglas f. Just download the application, make it executable, and run. Continuing in a series of interviews with the desktop summit 2011s keynote speakers, this past week william carlson traded emails with dirk hohndel of intel, who will give the summits august 6 opening keynote address. The number of linuxbased projects is rapidly increasing all over this industry, says dirk hohndel, intels linux and open source technologist. Dirk hohndel vp, chief open source officer vmware linkedin. Dirk joins the show to talk about his long history with open source and the current state of the open source ecosystem. Dirk hohndel had been working at intel since 2001 where he had been leading the linuxopensource charge. He was present representing intel and checking out what the kde community is up to.
As a hackerturnedbusinessman, hohndel brings a business perspective of free software to the desktop summit. Mrefficient writes, zdnet uk has a story in which dirk hohndel, the chief technical officer of suse linux, clears up an earlier statement made by the chief executive, roland dyroff, about linuxs readiness for the desktop. Dirk hohndel and hisao munakata bring longstanding commitment to linux and open source to foundations board. Dirk hohndel is a hackerturnedbusinessman, now chief linux and open source technologist at intel. Sunday, after the elegant keynote by aaron seigo, we managed to catch him for a. Dirk hohndel, the maintainer of subsurface, explained, the current situation with dozens of distributions, each with different rules, each with different versions of different libraries, some with certain libraries missing, each with different packaging tools and packaging formats that basically tells app developers go away, focus on. Wizards of os wizards of operating systems, or wos was a semiannual berlinbased conference that was held four times between 1999 and 2006. If you are searching for a specific package for your distribution, we recommend to use our software portal instead. Linus torvalds linuxcon north america 2016 youtube. View dirk hohndels profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Dirk hohndel linuxcon containercon cloudopen china. Suse linux is often referred to as the european red hat, since suse enjoys the kind of market domination there that red hat does in the u.
For example, suse has long worked with users such as banks and telecommunications companies, and connectiva has focused on. Usenix technical program abstract th systems administration conference lisa 99. If you add a wikilink to your presentation and attempt to upload it via the link, it may fail. Leap shares a common base system with suse linux enterprise, so major architectural changes are not expected for several years, aligned with each new major. Dirk hohndel on securing open sources software supply chain. Open source veteran dirk hohndel has joined cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor vmware as its vicepresident and chief open source officer. This is possible via cdrom, network or tape, using a special boot disk that describes the system that should be set up and either standard suse linux cds, customized install cds, an appropriately. Vmware joins the linux foundation as a gold member the company hired dirk hohndel to lead its open source efforts last year. Dirk has been an active developer and contributor to several dozen open source projects since the early 1990s. Dirk hohndel, vp, chief open source officer, vmware, in conversation with linux creator linus torvalds the linux foundation video. Dirk hohndel is no longer intels chief linuxoss technologist. Dirk has been an active developer and contributor in several dozen open source projects since the early 1990s, today most of his work is on the subsurface dive log project and many of the related. An interview with dirk hohndel, vmwares new chief open source.
Intels dirk hohndel presented a retrospective on the history of the linux kernel thursday at linuxcon europe in prague. Vmware joins the linux foundation as a gold member cio. Opensource software vendor suse linux has named a new chief executive officer for the second time since july in the final step of its recent restructuring. Dirk hohndel the appimage approach is really really useful. Dirk frequently spoke at linuxfloss conferences about intels involvement in these areas.
Mar 26, 2001 suse s business in germany has been focused much more on services such as customizing or installing linux systemsan approach that flopped in the u. My goal is to find the projects where there is agreement. Before that, among other roles, he worked as chief. Its topics were the cultural and political potentials of free software, software technology, digital networks and media, and more. Vmware embraces open source with dirk hohndel leading the way. View dirk hohndel s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Suse claims great improvements in its yast administration tool. This means it releases annually, with security and stability updates being the priority during each release lifetime. Downloads the installation system and all packages from online repositories. Leap shares a common base system with suse linux enterprise, so major architectural changes are not. More and more devices and systems and services are built based on linux, and therefore, more and more manufacturers and vendors are looking for linux talent. Dirk hohndel, announcing his resignation on tuesday, just a month after the previous ceo, roland dyroff, was. Dirk hohndel and fabian herschel, suse rheinmain ag abstract the paper describes how to allow a customized automated installation of linux. At akademy in tampere we interviewed dirk hohndel, chief linux and open source technologist we would call him dude at intel.
Dirk honhdel, chief technical officer with suse linux, talks to zdnets will knight about the desktop, windows 2000 and why his grandma aint using. Dirk hohndel open source leadership summit 2018 schedule. The linux seller expects to become profitable in 12 to 18 months, considerably later than u. Additionally, the different versions of linux have always catered to slightly different markets. Dirk hohndel chief linux and open source software technologist.
Dirk honhdel, chief technical officer with suse linux, talks to zdnets will knight about the desktop, windows 2000. The german linux seller hopes moving onto 9i will broaden its reach into enterprises, since oracle has the leading database market share and 9i is its flagship. Check out what dirk hohndel will be attending at open source. Vmw, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today announced the appointment of dirk hohndel as vice. You will not be able to make everyone happy, explained dirk hohndel, just a few months into his appointment as vmwares chief open source officer. Get the latest generation of enterprise linux os with the reliability of ibm hardware. The free standards group and li18nux are key strategic efforts in supporting and fulfilling international and local goals, said dirk hohndel, cto of suse linux ag. Oct 23, 2000 suse linux views kde 2 as one of the key milestones to vault linux to the same landslide success on the desktop that it already has in the server space, added dirk hohndel, cto of suse ag. Linuxcon containercon cloudopen china has ended create your own event. The nuremberg, germanybased company announced yesterday.
115 177 722 83 370 1497 1419 141 1250 628 311 760 855 425 1138 1185 886 388 168 584 840 1200 1105 158 301 535 952 486 918 550 42 601 1499