Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat

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Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat

Posted by michael on Sunday September 14, 2003 @10:07PM from the cry-havoc dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews published an interview with Havoc Pennington, the head manager of Red Hat's Desktop department, also known for his freedesktop.org initiative and his very active/leading role in Gnome. Havoc discusses the internal changes on Red Hat, the future of the desktop version of Red Hat Linux, the XFree86 fork Xoutert, GTK+ and Gnome while he characteristically says regarding Linux eating UNIX's marketshare: '...nails are firmly in the UNIX coffin, and it's just a matter of time.'"

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You have brought it upon yourself! by SMOC · 2003-09-14 22:12 · Score: 0, Funny

You have criticized Michael Simms, prepare to be modded down.

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Amazing! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-14 22:13 · Score: 1, Funny

An informative, on-topic first post!
Re:UNIX is dying? by popeyethesailor · 2003-09-14 22:24 · Score: 0, Funny

Must have forgotten to add "SCO" in front ;)
What's that rumbling sound? by BabyDave · 2003-09-14 22:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Is it an earthquake? A herd of elephants?

No, it's all the SCO jokers, with their (+5, Funny)'s at the ready! Time to run for cover, guys!
1. Re:What's that rumbling sound? by Chris+Sontag · 2003-09-14 22:29 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  Sir, That joke is the Copyright and Intellectual Property of the Santa Cruz Operation. Please cease and desist.
  
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Re:UNIX is dying? by Chris+Sontag · 2003-09-14 22:33 · Score: 5, Funny

He has it the wrong way round, my friend. Do not listen to the lies. Linux is like a snake we are going to cut into pieces. Unix will rise again! We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. They are retreating on all fronts. Their legal effort is a subject of laughter throughout the world.

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Re:UNIX is dying? by martin-boundary · 2003-09-14 22:33 · Score: 3, Funny

So what you're saying is: "Luke, I *am* your father."
"Nooooooooooooooooo!"
Heh by arvindn · 2003-09-14 22:44 · Score: 3, Funny

Verisign could have made a lot of money by redirecting http://www.freeesktop.org/ and http://www.xoutert.org/ to their own ad pages :-)
Gnome will kill Linux by DrSkwid · 2003-09-14 22:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Dan Egnor says it best :

Somewhere deep inside the secret headquarters of the RedHat/GNOME/Ximian/Mozilla Cabal, there's a hidden document with a list of everything in Unix you know and love, marked with a date for its final expurgation. I think 'ls' is slated to be finally replaced with a symlink to 'nautilus' in 2007. Except that symlinks will have been replaced by ".shortcut" files, which are interpreted by the Mono implementation of GNOME-VFS.

Luckily the spirit on Unix lives on.

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Havoc Pennington? by JazFresh · 2003-09-14 23:02 · Score: 3, Funny

It is me, or does that sound like the name of the next Bond villain?
Re:This reminds me... by snake_dad · 2003-09-14 23:17 · Score: 3, Funny

You could say that it was killed by the more advanced operating systems of last decade of the 10th century. This would be fair and reasonable.
DOS wasn't perfect, had issues with memory, very large filesystems were not supported, 1.0 did not even have directories and the available commands were a sorry bunch compared to unix, but to say that OS's from the Middle Ages were better is taking it a bit too far, IMHO.

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Re:UNIX is dying? by More+Karma+Than+God · 2003-09-14 23:19 · Score: 2, Funny

So is it SCO/Gnu/Linux or is it Gnu/SCO/Linux?

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Re:Cool name by Wirr · 2003-09-14 23:47 · Score: 2, Funny

I was thinking the same.
It's a bit like naming your son Warlock or Judas.
Possibly his parents were thinking of his adult sex life, like "Go force young beatiful girls and wreak Havoc".

I think this is my worst post ever.
Re:UNIX is dying? by Illbay · 2003-09-14 23:49 · Score: 1, Funny

Wha happen?
Somebody set up us the bomb.

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