Rasterman Says Desktop Linux is Dead

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."

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I Missed the Obit

[Brown Line]

Last night, I just turned off Windows 98 at home.
It's replaced with the newest Red Hat. My two teen-agers love it (with the sole reservation that they can't run Final Fantasy any more). Our local parochial school is switching to Linux in its computer teaching lab. At work, we're a Fenster-frei environment: we route telephone calls, all done under BSD and SCO.

So Linux on the desktop is dead, eh? Guess a lot of people like me just missed the obituary.

Re:Well..

[psavo]

Exactly. Adboce, for instance, will keep shipping their ugly Motif-baed Reader, in the absence of a standard.

In the case of adobe, it's all about 'history'. once upon a time they bought some kit which allowed them to develop apps simultaneously for Win16/Unix. That kit used Motif. ATM, company which made the kit, is probably dead. If They would switch over to something like wxWindows, they could use any kit on unix side. AFAIK adobe apps always come statically compiled anyways.

Re:Slashdot is CENSO**NG YOU!! IMPORTANT Please RE

[Spruce Moose]

I think he does. It's what crapflooders do.