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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I agree that linux doesn't provide the stability of Solaris - Yet. (I'm not qualified to comment on the BSD statment, since I've yet to see a nonhardware or nvidia driver related crash on Linux)
As for the "Too bad linux haven't clearly defined its share into the market..." comment, it's seems that you don't 'get' Linux. Linux is whatever a vendor or end user wants it to be, provide they, or someone else (paid or otherwise) is willing to code it.
That's it. There's no magic 'market' for Linux. It's everything from a embedded devices to desktops to servers to routers to clusters. I use Linux because it does what I need and want in an OS. I don't use Windows because it fails to provide what I need and want.