Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat

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.'"

Comments

hey

[Mohammed Al-Sahaf]

Its Xouvert, not Xoutert.

Re:hey

[oever]

From the xouvert website:

What kind of a name is Xouvert?

Xouvert is named after the ancient Babylonian goddess of open windows, wooden digging implements, and moonlight. A notorious ritual among the higher levels of Freemasonry has kept her memory alive until now. Xouvert, awake!

Which is of course, complete bollocks. Xouvert is french for Xopen.

http://www.freeesktop.org/?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to put to fine a point on it but your hyperlink is incorrect

http://www.freeesktop.org/

OSNews, blah...

[vsync64]

While reading through the interview, I noticed such bizarre and nonsensical statements as:

Looking Red Hat's recent press releases and web site lately, it reveals a new, stronger effort to shift focus further into the Enterprise and leaving Red Hat Linux to the hands of the community for the home/desktop market while leaves a "hole" in the previous target of Red Hat at the "Corporate Desktop market".

At the end of the day, we have seen patents being so "duh, brain dead", that many have said that writing software is almost impossible anymore. What a solution for this issue OSS software should find, to ensure a future that is not striked by lawsuits left and right?

Once, you started a C++ wrapper for GTK+, but then the project got sterile.

Do you feel that Linux is replacing Unix slowly but steadily, or do they follow parallel and different directions in your opinion?

I said to myself, "This article must be by Eugenia Loli-Queru", looked to the byline, and lo and behold I was correct. The local rag is more respectable, which is saying a lot, considering that they routinely misspell the names of cities in front page headlines and such. Even JeffK makes more sense than Eugenia.