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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. Re:All haters aside; by lithiumcloud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Distros! Distros are for wimps! Real hackers compile from source.

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  2. enough already by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 1, Troll

    ok, enough already. haven't we heard enough of this propaganda? seriously.

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  3. Re:No no no!!! by s4m7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    OK, dude, here's where you missed the boat:
    Since necessity is the mother of invention, and since you're clearly not happy with the current state of wine, and the Apps You Need(tm) aren't yet native, you have three choices:

    a) stick w/your old platform(win) or dual boot
    b) help code wine so that it runs the Apps You Need(tm)
    or
    c)help recode / code your own Apps that do whatever it is You Need(tm).

    since A just sucks, and B and C take roughly the same amount of effort, where would you rather see it go? compatibility with legacy apps that will be replaced, or new, free/open source apps that then become the standard?

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