djemos interview on distrowatch

[gapan]

Our developer, Dimitris Tzemos has been interviewed by distrowatch. The interview is mostly about Slackel, but there is some interesting info about Salix as well in there. You can listen to the interview at
https://distrowatch.com/podcast/dww20170612.mp3

There is also an ogg vorbis file if you prefer that:
http://people.salixos.org/djemos/salix/ ... 170612.ogg

The interview starts around 29:45 into the audio file.

Congratulations Dimitris!

[ChuangTzu]

Listening to it now...It is an excellent interview. We should have a sticky somewhere of interviews like these, past and current.

[laprjns]

That was fun, congratulations Dimitris. George, its sound like your on deck!

[gaucho]

gapan,

Thanks for posting the interview link. I listened to it and enjoyed learning something about Dimitris' personal life, in addition to his work on Slackel.

I especially liked two comments Dimitris made: first, that he chose to use Slackware as a base because of its stability, simplicity and speed; second, that he viewed the relationship between Slackel, Salix and Slackware as an ecosystem, in which the work of each distro's developers mutually benefits each other.

I was also a bit surprised to learn that Slackel originated before Salix (I assumed that Salix had come first).

Συγχαρητήρια, Δημήτρι! And go Panetolikos FC, go!

[djemos]

Thank you all. I am glad you liked it.

[Papasot]

Very nice interview, and educative too. I wasn't aware of it - thank you gapan for letting us know.

I always assumed Slackel was derived from Salix, as its Slackware-Current derivative. It turns out I was wrong. It's actually about two independent projects which joined task force, and they are now brother distros. This is a big fat plus in my book.
Dimitris says somewhere "... if Slackel was based on Ubuntu, people would try it at once". Sadly, that's true - but also frightening, even as a fictional hypothesis.
I could quote some other things I heard in this interview, but I won't - it's better for people to actually listen to it, if they want to learn about Slackel's history and developer.

I guess it's George's turn now for a distrowatch interview, sooner or later - preferably sooner: "he is on our radar, no doubt about it". When that happens, please let us know. I bet most people wouldn't know otherwise.