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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The way I see it, if Linux displaces proprietary Unix, it will be by Linux being phased in as proprietary Unix gets phased out. For now, the proprietary Unices scale better than Linux, and have a few other nifty features as well, so they still have their place. Linux, though, does not stand still, and as it acquires the high-end features of the high-end Unices, there will be less and less reason to deploy them. In the meantime, apps can be written for both Linux and proprietary Unix, and many older apps written for the proprietary Unices can be ported to Linux with relative ease. That means that the transition from proprietary Unix to Linux should be relatively smooth. It will be less of a revolution and more of an evolution.