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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. Havoc and Fascism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Why weren't any of the really hard-hitting questions asked, like:

    Why are you making Gnome suck by mandating that metacity be the default windo manager?

    Why are you making Gnome suck by refusing the help of the community in fixing such obviously broken pieces of code such as metacity (seriously, look at the bugzilla entries for this thing to see how many applications break ONLY when run with metacity, and to see Havoc's "won't fix" attitude, because adding any code to metacity would be "crack")?

    Why do *you* get to be the new Gnome dictator? Is it because Miguel is just too busy doing his caffeine-induced .NET dance?

  2. Re:Havoc Pennington has the right idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mom & Dad were saying those lines together, in unison? What great parents...

  3. Sicko by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Geri Halliwell and Courtney Love are rough, ugly slappers, nearly as bad as Madonna. Please.