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Red Hat Invades Washington

Posted by michael on from the fedoras-for-everyone dept.

Paul Coe Clark III writes: "I caught Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, in Washington yesterday and grilled him about the DMCA, the SSSCA, the Sklyarov case and the future of Linux."

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  1. Re:Good points, but *how* is the market different? by Xavier+Shirin · · Score: 3, Informative

    that he thinks the PC desktop market is dead, and that other markets (embedded, appliance-led products, networked devices) are the way forward, was not picked up by the interviewer IMHO. If you go the redhat.com there are links to the embedded project center. You can bet that RedHat has seized this important oppurtunity.

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  2. If OS X wants to compete... by Karl+Cocknozzle · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...with MS, Linux, and other Unices, it will have to change the following three things about itself:

    1) Transparent filesharing with MS. Sorry guys, but it's not there yet. Opening the "Connect to Server" dialong in Finder and using the syntax smb://2kwksation/share to attempt to access my 2k Workstation fails. It does work with 2k Server/Advanced Server w/File Services for Macintosh installed, though.

    2) Flesh out the OS with control panels to do functions that are currently available only via the command prompt. Specifically, there's no reason an Apple operating system shouldn't allow some configuration of the swap file from the System Preferences. The only method I'm aware of involves a trip to the terminal, something many novice mac users are wont to try.

    3) Multiple desktops.

    Additionally, Apple will need to motivate developers to move their biggest products into the new Mac OS. They would be wise to approach developers that don't currently develop for the Macintosh but do work with other variants of Unix or Linux. Games would be nice, and completion of OpenOffice for X would be nice, but any little bit helps.

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    1. Re:If OS X wants to compete... by seney · · Score: 2, Informative

      1) Transparent filesharing with MS. Sorry guys, but it's not there yet. Opening the "Connect to Server" dialong in Finder and using the syntax smb://2kwksation/share to attempt to access my 2k Workstation fails. It does work with 2k Server/Advanced Server w/File Services for Macintosh installed, though.

      sure...

      2) Flesh out the OS with control panels to do functions that are currently available only via the command prompt. Specifically, there's no reason an Apple operating system shouldn't allow some configuration of the swap file from the System Preferences. The only method I'm aware of involves a trip to the terminal, something many novice mac users are wont to try.

      exactly, so those darn novice users would care about swap files for what reason? ninety-nine percent of them don't even know what it is, let alone how to configure it.

      3) Multiple desktops.

      to go with their multiple-button mice? remember that whole simplicity thing?

      it's not a competition - it's apple doing their own thing - some of us appreciate it - some don't.

      Additionally, Apple will need to motivate developers to move their biggest products into the new Mac OS. They would be wise to approach developers that don't currently develop for the Macintosh but do work with other variants of Unix or Linux. Games would be nice, and completion of OpenOffice for X would be nice, but any little bit helps.

      sorry, but i believe apple is happy with m$ office being released for OSX. it gives OSX credibility as a veritable system - unlike OpenOffice.

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