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OSCON 2008 Roundup
An anonymous reader writes "Infoweek wraps last week's event with Inside The OSCON 2008 Conference, which pulls together interviews with Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin, MySQL's Zach Urlocker and Sam Ramji, who directs Microsoft's Open Source Lab. Best quotes: 'We will make a significant attempt to elevate the Linux desktop to the point where it is as good or better than Apple,' from Shuttleworth; and 'If I would start a business tomorrow I'd do it in the netbook marketplace. I'd build a dead-simple $200 device that targets sports fans, women over forty,' from Zemlin." We discussed Shuttleworth's better-than-Apple proposition while OSCON was going on. Update Jamie noted this OSCON Summary Video that might also be worth your time.
apple may be a cult... but linux is a debilitating addiction:
http://xkcd.com/456
-- Sex is the antonym of pringles. Once you pop it's time to stop.
If you're going to troll(?) at least do it in metric please!
"Anonymous Coward" is very well known in the MacOS programming community.
you can say osx has great icandy, but what about compiz-fusion?? i never seen multi desktops on a spinning cube, nor the wobbly windows, nor the burning windows, or the magic lamp effect on any other os then linux!!!
The nipple's intuitive. Everything else is more or less hard to learn.
For example, when you do a search in a textbox or browser or something, OSX not only highlights the text, it makes it jump out for a second (stretch then shrink). It is really cool.
jumping text in emacs would be really cool.