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Overclocked Cafe has posted an interview with C. Adrian Silasi of SiSoftware



GoaT: Have you ever considered a Linux version of Sandra, or even some kind of scaled back Linux diagnostic software?

Adrian: Yes, Sandra is being ported to Linux (RedHat/Mandrake). The hardest part is to port the interface (from MFC), the rest are just normal C++ classes, hopefully it should go quicker... It's just a question of time.

GoaT: What first drew you to work on diagnostic and other low level software?

Adrian: I wrote the original Win16 program, SAW (http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/saw) in my 1st year at University (City University, London) trying to learn how to program in Pascal and C++. I mean actually write something and release it to see what people think of it/whether they find it useful or not. So all I wanted was to learn to program and how stuff worked.
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