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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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.