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Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman

Posted by timothy on from the dances-with-monkeys dept.

Sheepish writes "OSNews features a long and interesting interview with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian Desktop 2 are included too."

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  1. Re:Ummm ... as if ... by Strike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Feh, my Atari 2600 walks all over that Pentium 4 AND your Windows 2000 - combined!

  2. Get with the times... by moreati · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quote: KDE has way more options (the clock properties dialog has five tabs!),
    Actually it has 6 in KDE version 3.1: General, Timezones, Plain Clock, Analogue Clock, Fuzzy Clock.
    For some reason I find that amusing. If you're going to drop some FUD, at least get your facts straight.
    I'm guessing 3.2 will have 12 or 24 depending on it's mode.

    1. Re:Get with the times... by moreati · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oops, I appear to have fudded in a sarcastic fudding actually meant to defud.

      OK, as the other AC correctly noted, the sixth is Digital Clock.

  3. Re:I already don't like this guy. by metacosm · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are jealous that your sister is looking at other guys?

    Creepy +1!