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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Why do you expect people to keep buying new hardware? What for? "Only $40" is cheap for people in countries in South America? Just because there are legions of immature & selfish geeks who upgrade every 6 months & want to have flashy screen fx & boast about their newfanged Radeon card and bang-bang game? What about the hundreds of millions of computers dumped into landfills? The needless pollution? Why should you need a 1GHz computer just to type and browse the web? I'm very tired of this attitude towards computing. What about in 6 years time when you can't understand why anyone would still be using a 5Ghz computer. What happens to your 1GHz computer now? Landfill? Wastefulness.
Why do you expect people to keep buying new hardware? What for? "Only $40" is cheap for people in countries in South America? Just because there are legions of immature & selfish geeks who upgrade every 6 months & want to have flashy screen fx & boast about their newfanged Radeon card and bang-bang game? What about the hundreds of millions of computers dumped into landfills? The needless pollution? Why should you need a 1GHz computer just to type and browse the web? I'm very tired of this attitude towards computing. What about in 6 years time when you can't understand why anyone would still be using a 5Ghz computer. What happens to your 1GHz computer now? Landfill? Wastefulness.