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Hackers on Linux's Exciting Desktop Future
Gentu writes "OSNews features two interviews with prominent open source developers: Robert Love started working at Ximian this week and he will be leading the 'effort to improve the Linux desktop experience via kernel development'. In this Q&A, he explains what he will be working on hardware integration, freedesktop.org's D-BUS & HAL, low latency optimizations, power management, X & 3D and a 'Linux answer to WinFS'. The second interview is with Red Hat's Owen Taylor. Owen speaks of GTK+ development and where he sees the project going in the Gnome 3 timeframe: freedesktop.org's new X server, Cairo support, GTK#, OpenGL & other widgets and more."
These advances must have been stolen from SCO...there is no way a bunch of random hackers could have thought them up an implemented themselves.
"We need a simple, low overhead, fast communication channel from the kernel out to user-space, to communicate everything from device status ("your processor is overeating")..."
I finally know why I am never satisfied with the performance of any computer that I have ever used. I used to think that operating systems and applications grew increasingly bloated in order to encourage me to buy a new computer. Now I know that computers perform poorly because the process or is overeating!
When I first used Linux and I ran X, my thought was "damn, this is slow."
I thought the same thing. Then, I saved my pennies and got rid of my 486.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
R. Love: HAL
2. OSNews: (99 words +) BeOS?
R. Love (diplomatic): Yes and no.
3. OSNews: (600 words)?
R. Love: No.
4. OSNews: (20 words)?
R. Love: HAL.
5. OSNews: (19 words +) HAL?
R. Love: Yes, HAL.
6. OSNews: (600 words)?
R. Love: Dunno what you're talking about.
7. OSNews: (100 words)?
R. Love: No.
Yeah.. maybe they would have been better off inventing a special toolkit all for themselves.
*ducks and runs* Sorry! Couldn't resist!