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 whole-heartedly agree that DirectFB is a great solution to moving passed X11. I have been thinking about an OpenGL desktop on top of DFB, a la Quartz on Mac OS X, where every window is an OGL window, damn small linux ( http://damnsmalllinux.org ), a live linux distro, has it out of the box, and it's fairly snappy even under VirtualPC on my slow Mac Cube
A whole APIs widgets written over OGL + DFB would be really damn sweet, IMO