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Interview with Taylor & Pennington from Red Hat

Posted by chrisd on from the free-software-means-freely-customized-too dept.

RH-Gimp writes "OSNews has put together a long and informative interview with Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor from Red Hat. They discuss about the KDE issues, the UI on Red Hat 8.0, the future of the Linux desktop and XFree and other interesting stuff."

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  1. Man I Love These Guys! by coupland · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, Penn and Taylor are my favourite comedians of all time, I had no idea they worked for RedHat... Guys I totally loved that time you threw the glass of water in the talk-show host's face, and you rocked on Fear Factor! ;-)

  2. Smoke and mirrors... by Soko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops!

    Sorry - that would be Penn and Teller. Silly me. ;-)

    Soko

    --
    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
  3. Re:All haters aside; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Alas poor Bard, we -new- him well. A grave man no more, it seems!

  4. Future developers by kingkade · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's good to see young developers getting involved is OSS. I mean, what are these guys, 11, maybe 12 at most?

    :P

    --
    why run from Vincenzo?
  5. Re:All haters aside; by AceMarkE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh... I don't normally pick on misspellings, but this one's too good to pass up...

    Would a mile-high minstrel also qualify as "Raising the bard"?

    Mark Erikson

  6. Re:All haters aside; by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kudos to RH for raising the bard ...

    To KDE, or not to KDE: that is the question:
    Whether 'tis GNOMEbler in the mind to suffer
    The flames and trolls of outrageous UserInterface,
    Or to take arms against a sea of disparate apps,
    And by opposing end them? To kill -9: to sleep; ...

    Soko

    --
    "Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
  7. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I find this insulting coming from a movement which is supposedly all about freedom

    Freedom to censor (ask Michael Sims and the slashdot crew!), Freedom to be communits (props RMS!), Freedom to run over protestors with a tank (suckers who bought LNUX at $320.00 a share!).

    A match made in heaven

  8. Re:All haters aside; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read it as an unsubstantiated rumor that a RedHat necromancer brought Shakespeare back to life.

  9. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I'm not gunna even begin to care about the Taiwanese flag until the Texas flag is in there.

  10. Re:GUI by d_redguy · · Score: 5, Funny
    would serve as a better bulwark against you-know-who.
    Who, Voldemort?
  11. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by egghat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey,

    now their name *Red*Hat even makes sense ...

    Bye egghat.

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    -- "As a human being I claim the right to be widely inconsistent", John Peel
  12. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think it could be arranged if you provide an en_TX translation ;-)

  13. Re:Desktop is a breeze today on linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...have to be as easy as in Mac or Windows to install and uninstall software.


    I'm pretty sure that this is not the way.

  14. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by mikefoley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for your comments Mr. President

    --
    What's my Karma Mr. Burns? "Excellent"
  15. Re:All haters aside; by The+Faywood+Assassin · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just love how these harde-core Linux users sit there and preach that easy to use, pre-packaged and pre-configured Linux distros are for lazy and stupid people, and that REAL users produce everything from scratch....

    ....just before they go to McDonald's to buy a pre-packaged, and pre-configured Big Mac combo #3, because they are to stupid and lazy to prepare their meals from scratch!

    Now excuse me while I work away here on RedHat 7.2 and munch on my Big Extra combo #6

    Beny
    --

    "I'm a humble person really,

    I'm actually much greater than I think I am"