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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With UNIX dying. It will (hopefully) mean it is replaced with something better. Havoc did not say BSD will die, but UNIX, which refers to something like SCO UNIX, or other commercial Unices.
Linux has the momentum to take it right past UNIX right now. The other very good thing is that it is quite vendor nuetral. You have adoption by IBM, SUN, ORACLE and other heavy hitters. Commercial UNIX will die because it will no longer deliver value.
And also, project like GNOME do not, and IMO should not cater, or even try to cater for the entire user base. People who need lightweight GUI's should just use a lightweight system. I am not rich myself, and I do understand that computers should not be a preserve of the rich, we can not expect people with 3GHz computers to run the same software as someone with a P133. People buy computers to be able to use the power of them. That is the good thing about Linux. You get the same OS, but you can adjust your software to suit your hardware requirements. So GNOME/KDE for people with mid to high end computers. And Windowmaker/XFCE et al for those with slower hardware.