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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."

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  1. Worst.. Headline.. Ever by Saint+Stephen · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Some hackers think linux is neat."

    Film at 11.

  2. 23/7/2003: My Family by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    23/7/2003: My Family

    You will be wondering what kind of parents could give birth to a creature like me... I might sound a bit soppy here, but I also have a biological mother and father, well, I should rather say I had, seen what happened... Anyway, I also was eager to know about the whole business, so one night just before my leaving from the Netherlands - that is 5 years ago -, after the pedo-scandal I had experienced thanks to my connection with a 40 years old man, my mummy (who was by then incapable of perceiving reality) sitting before me in the gloom started to tell me a tale in a low voice. Hers was the tone of an intimate confidence between two women who are used to talk to each other about sex matters...

    Well, she followed all the program about those maladjusted and molested children like me, a program which the land of tulips offers so generously, making children believe their secrets will be only shared by a social worker, whereas, actually, these recorded tapes (where you might see me giving fingers to the camera hidden behind the false mirror) get handed over to his/her parents, the police, and the psychologist who cared about me...

    In short, instead of doing his work this guy would ask me what was my lover's feeling when I pissed in his mouth (well, he liked it - that was my answer), and whether I liked it too, and if I would do it again, etc. ... My dearest one, if you want me to pee in YOUR mouth as well, just let me know, for I can't now give a fuck about it anymore after undergoing 4 gynaecological tests... And this would take place in front of a policewoman and a social worker, to find out whether my intercourse with him was of a vaginal kind (no use telling them again and again we DID fuck!)... So let's go for one more golden shower in public, even in your mouth if this can help you healing me... There, let's go back to my dear mummy and her confidential tale:

    You know, your father and I fell in love in the early 80s, the age of punkers, rebels, and squatters... You see, we were a lot different those years, we would sleep all together in some big rooms where, after a party of music, alcohol, and smoke... the drunken and dazed young people would split up by groups with a final voice, a sentence born from the very last glass before abandoning themselves to warriors sleep...

    We all felt special, but your father showed up in the group: he would be standing with his six friends lying down around to listen to him... He was so beautiful, he had a reputation of possessing and satisfying all the girls he could get hold of... No woman could resist to his appeal... When I looked him I was all of a tremble... My girlfriend then believed I was cold and began to lightly touch my shoulders and hair in a sweetest way...

    Your father suddenly raised his eyes and caught sight of me... I... I don't know what was up with me, I didn't want him to stop looking at me... So I let myself go and helped my friend to caress me by leaning my head sideways... I could feel her hand on my back languidly following the line of my shoulders, and I quivered in front of your father's dazed look... I could feel on my skin his friends' looks too... Meanwhile, she who was sitting behind me brought her hot hand nearer the shoulder straps of my bra, gently sliding it down my bosom... I let her do it, I didn't offer any resistance and she went on. She touched my breast and took it all in her hand... She held it tight, then lightly... She kept sliding her fingers between my nipples... I felt her breath become deeper and deeper... I was in raptures... And your father, saying no words, slowly started to draw nearer to me... His eyes were injected with lust... Soon he was in front of me, bent down and had a look at my friend, who silently gave him her consent... He put his hands on my knees... I was stiff as a poker, I could barely breathe... I wished he went farther but didn't dare to move... It was such a magic... I was excited and my panties did make it clear... His hands kept sco

  3. If I were a hacker i'd be excited too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    an exiting future of dumbed down systems for users who cannot dedicate the hours required to disentagle the notion of "shell" from that which has always been the home of various sea creatures.

    No wonder hackers are excited, in the future, if linux is widely adopted as a desktop standard, the mass user-base will be using a system the malicious are more intimate with.

  4. oops... by justMichael · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, so I went to RTFA.

    Please mod my former post into the gutter, I will pick it up in the morning.

    Damnit, this should be a lesson to you all, don't base your opinions on what get's posted on /. :-)

  5. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You fuckshit

  6. Re:Michael is a horrible editor who should be fire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I agree, Michael is an idiot who should have been fired years ago.