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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."

21 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. F1RST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SUCKERS!!!!

    1. Re:F1RST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Damn, my first first post evah. Damn. I gots to thank the man upstairs for this one. Stephen King, you've always been there for me. Thank you!

  2. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! by MortisUmbra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How DAMNED cool is that name? "Whats your name sir?" "Havoc...." Hahaha, oh someones parents loved them very much :) Doubt anyone on the playground made fun of him for his name....

    --

    "The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."
    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.

  3. what the hell happened to adequacy.org? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Anyone know?

    Now I can't read linux sealotcartoons anymore (too bad they were't distributed under a FREE license like MS Shared Source!)

  4. Owen Taylor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check out the picture of that guy. He would've fit right in doing 70's porn.

  5. Re:Word for the day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very nice comeback. I like your style.

    (and no i am not the racist AC that posted the parent message and am now being sarcastic, just a passer by enjoying a good retort)

  6. Re:Word for the day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are obviously a KIKE or a MUDPERSON.

    Kill yourself before an honest WHITE man has to do it for you.

  7. chrisd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    haha. did anybody see that guy on tech tv? The fucker makes Cowboy Neal look svelte. The guy is about 45, has a dirt-hipster pony tail and weighs about 400 pounds. Bahah, the idiot should not be showing his pathetic ass on TV.

  8. 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.

  9. First Blasphemous post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    jESUS was a MONKEY!

  10. Re:Word for the day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shouldn't that be "use the nigger as muscle..."?

    Just wondering, I'm not a native English speaker, and so far we don't have a nigger problem in my country (here the kikes use mass-imported arabs as a weapon against our culture and society).

  11. havoc pennington by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What I wanna know is... how the hell did he get such a goddam cool name? I'm jealous ;)

  12. Second Blasphemous post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    jESUS was a Timothy!

  13. Deep heat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was putting some deep heat cream on my legs and accidently got some on my balls and it BURNS BURNS BURNS, kinda like that ring of fire Johnny sings about

  14. 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

    1. Re:Owen Taylor sports some dubious facial hair ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      coding and wanking.

  15. Why no apt-rpm? by ahornby · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    apt-rpm has to be the _best_ feature that is missing.

    Redhat should include it by default and make their updates available over it.

    --
    -- Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.
  16. Re:When willl the screen fonts stop sucking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please sell the rock you've been living under.

  17. Re:All haters aside; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hsdh lgirgaredtqaexfgrgw

  18. Re:Many unanswered questions remain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Personally, I'd mod you down as flamebait if I had moderator points today. Insulting him was unnecessary - you made your point point.