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Rasterman Says Desktop Linux is Dead

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the popular-view-these-days dept.

anguished writes "The future of Linux, its best hopes for blowing past everything else on an x86 machine, once was located in a little Austrailai website, with a window manager called Enlightenment, which we all hoped to be good enough to build and configure. In an interview with Linux and Main, the recently silent Rasterman talks about GNOME, KDE, E, and his view that the future of Linux requires new playing fields."

7 of 675 comments (clear)

  1. How hard would it be to emulate a Mac? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you could run MacOS on top of linux, I bet you'd get a lot of people using both. I know I would.

  2. Apple is way deader! by feldsteins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple has you beat by a mile. It's been dying twice a year since the mid-80's.

    --
    You like your Macintosh better than me, don't you Dave? Dave? Can you hear me Dave?
  3. Windows has won. Face it. by jsse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Has it? Has the battle ended already? Do we have a closing date in this battle?

    Or you just feel tired and rest behind the lane, yell at the runners "We lost! Face it! Do you hear me? We lost, dudes!"

  4. Re:Suggestions for a base? by Radical+Rad · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am serious about putting TechnophobeLinux together. Please reply if you are interested in helping.

    I hope you change the name for Christ's sake. Hell, even "AnalProbeLinux" would sound friendlier than that!

  5. Re:Apparently... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...Linux is the new Punk Rock.

    You mean it ceased to be innovative in 1980?

    That works.

  6. Rasterman by haroldhunt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rasterman: Desktop Linux is Dead

    10 years later...

    Desktop Linux: Rasterman is Dead

  7. Re:Desktop is dead! by mickwd · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What if your email could be read to you automatically when you walked into your apartment?"

    When I eventually get the girl of my dreams to come back to my apartment, the last thing I want to hear is:

    "MickWd, get that larger penis you always wanted"

    "Hey, MickWd, this is Naughty Nancy. I'm horny and waiting for your call"

    "MickWd, having problems getting it up ? Try our new Viagra"