Contributing Editor

Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is the Director of Portfolio Management for the Embedded Systems, Open Source and Linux Technology Group at Motorola. In this role he is responsible for defining and developing the requirements for Motorola’s open source initiatives. He will represent Motorola in Linux and Open Source forums driving Motorola’s requirements and overall strategy. He will also be involved with customers and partners on matters related to embedded systems, and open source software technologies and roadmaps.

Prior to Motorola, Dr. Haddad managed the Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux Initiatives at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) which included promoting the development and adoption of Linux and Open Source software in the communications industry. He also created and led the Carriers/Network Equipment Providers Forum, a vendor-neutral forum for carriers, service providers, network equipment providers and telecommunication equipment manufacturers, to discuss common challenges, exchange best practices and deployment experiences, and preview new technologies that relate to Linux and Open Source based platforms. Prior to joining OSDL, Dr. Haddad was a Senior Researcher at the "Research and Innovation" department of Ericsson’s corporate unit of research where he was involved with the server system architecture for 3G wireless IP networks and contributed to Ericsson's open platform efforts.

Dr. Haddad is co-author of two books on Red Hat Linux and Fedora. He is a Contributing Editor of the Linux Journal and a featured speaker and panelist at industry conferences.

Haddad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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Feeling a bit like a Thermian? Never give up, never surrender! Someday, you could go from underdog to top dog. Just take a look at a few of the underdogs we highlight in this issue: Mutt, djbdns, Nginix, Gentoo, Xara and the program voted mostly likely to fail just a few years back—Firefox. If Firefox not radical enough for you, check out Chef Marcel's column for some more alternatives. Having trouble mapping your program data to your relational database? If so, Rueven Lerner shows you some tricks in his At The Forge column.

Need to run GUI applications on your server in the next state? In his Paranoid Penguin column, Mick Bauer shows you how to do it securely. Kyle Rankin keeps hacking and slashing and shows you a few split screen secrets you may not be familiar with. Finally, we all know what happens next February, but only Doc knows what happens afterward.

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