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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Mystilleef wrote:
"We don't follow Windows' footsteps, we make ours. These new 3D technologies are redundant and resource hungry features that not useful on the desktop. The Desktop is going to be predominantly 2D for a good while."
"Why should we care less about other people to satisfy your desire? Other people are humans too, you know. I suppose the other people you are talking about are developing nations who can't afford to purchase 1Ghz machines, or individuals and other entities who see beyond IT/media hype.
Not everyone can afford to upgrade every year to play the upcoming version of DOOM or Half Life. Not everyone thinks it is necessary to upgrade to browse the internet, email, play chess or chat on IRC. When did Linux become the Operating System for the rich MAC user? When did Linux begin to force users to upgrade their hardware to use it? "
"I don't know where you get your statistics from, but old computers are still used widely around the globe. Only those falling for media hype, or those who really need the extra CPU power, or enthusiasts like gamers are upgrading. Go to any developing nation and have look at the computers they are using. If you see more than 20 2Ghz computers in a building, I'll buy you a beer. Heck even NASA uses 486 based intel CPUs, talk less of your average poor student."
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Bravo! You hit the nail right on the head.
Most Americans (those living in the northern hemisphere) live in Disney world. Their perception of world affairs is distorted and have little knowledge of what the situation is with Americans in the southern hemisphere (read Latin America), much less Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the rest of the Third World.
In my neighborhood, I am one of the fortunate ones who owns PII 266 with a cd-writer. To me, a Realtek NIC card (made in China) is perfect!, a 16 MB Riva(Nvidia is more than enough, thank you very much, IceWM is the non plus ultra: light and fast. Debian/Sid is my deluxe distro, I give away Knoppix, Morphix and DSL to anybody who wants to try Linux for the first time. Most people down here use Pentium 100s and PII 200s. We don't waste our time with silly games. In these times when people are eating out of garbage cans thanks to globalization, games, Aqua, and eye-candy means didly to us.
Regards,
Mario