Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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What I find good is that he has a vision, which people may or may not agree with. I wholly agree with time based releases. I think it is a very good thing for a software project to be able to make promises and keep them, like, we will have a desktop ready in 6 months. Right now, Redhat was able to delay its release a little because they knew GNOME 2.4 would be there on time. It makes things like release planning much easier for software aggregators like Redhat and other distros.
3D in Linux, or X more specifically is sorely needed. We have OPenGL, and this should be leveraged much like Apple does with OSX. I think all the building blocks are there.
I also agree somewhat that if you can't nail the enterprise desktop, which is what Redhat is after, the home market will never come. I feel sorry for others who shall tend the desktop market for companies like redhat to come back to later. Mandrake probably realises this right now too. I want to see Linux in the workplace, and then hardware manufacturers will sit up and take notice.