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Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:Cool name by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I think this is my worst post ever.

    I concur.

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  2. Re:Cool name by DrWhizBang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think this is my worst post ever.

    No argument here.

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  3. ??? /. Reader in a /. manner ??? by justsomebody · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's really dissapointing to see that
    30% is commenting on guys name.
    30% is commenting on grammar mistakes
    10% is commenting on wrong hyperlinks
    20% is commenting if Linux is UNIX or not
    9% are trolls
    1% actualy managed to stay on topic

    My best guess is that all /. people that:
    always bitch on how clipboard doesn't work
    lack of 3D Desktop drawing and translucency
    lack of KD, GNOME, X11 cooperation
    no default printer interface
    etc.

    don'teven nearly realise that:

    Havoc is one o the leading people on freedesktop.org, which should provide KDE-GNOME cooperation,

    freedesktop.org and Xouvert cooperation would solve more than people would wnat (standard SVG library, standard clipboard, 3D desktop, standard printer interface),

    that Xouvert should be fully transpaent to XFree, so exchange would be a piece of cake

    By the way, he said one truly correct thing:
    eople bitchin' about over such things are not developrs that contribute to either project, mostly those ones are users who preffer one interface over the other

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