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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."

3 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! by jonnythan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you see his picture?

    Naming a gerbil "Mauler" doesn't make it scary.

  2. BeOS 6? by Xenex · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    From page 3 of the interview:

    "9. How do you feel about XFree's inability to fully function as a modern graphics subsystem? (e.g. you can't change real resolutions on the fly, no support for OSX's and BeOS6's smooth window moving etc)..."

    BeOS 6?

    Did I miss something? Yes, the R5.1 'Dano' developer release leaked, but I hadn't heard anything about R6.

  3. Owen Taylor sports some dubious facial hair ... by LizardKing · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I haven't seen any comments on this yet, but they may have been moderated below my threshold. However, it has got to be said that Owen Taylor has some seriously nasty facial hair. It's always interesting to see what people you know from faceless mediums like mailing lists and IRC actually look like, but I never imagained Owen Taylor would resemble a 70's porn star ...

    Anyway, the interview was far more insightful than most I've seen of late. Quite surprising, as I'm generally unimpressed with the interviewers usual review output.

    Chris