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Hackers on Linux's Exciting Desktop Future

Posted by michael on from the join-the-army-see-the-world dept.

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."

3 of 338 comments (clear)

  1. Re:DebSux by Sabalon · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    So what should replace it? Why is it the worst?

    It's easy to sit around and say something sucks, but to defend that reason and offer insight into why something else is better takes a little more.

  2. Re:Shortfalls of GTK+ by Roydd+McWilson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    truely a tesamint to the sorry shape /.'s in when someone named "BitchKapoor" get's modded upto +5 Informative... just glad my 2-year-old can't read yet... or maybe he's just hiding it from me? anyone else wish this sight had an optinal obscenity filter for this kindof nonsense.

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  3. Re:Shortfalls of GTK+ by Roydd+McWilson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WHEREAS, I was just kidding around,
    WHEREAS, the totally lacking grammar in my above post is uncharacteristic of my previous posts, WHEREAS, BitchKapoor is actually a good friend of mine,
    RESOLVED, YHBT,
    RESOLVED, but I'll fuck off anyway,
    RESOLVED, now IHBT.

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