Star Miguel de Icaza: Rest of the World to Eventually Force US Into Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
Novell and Ximian Last Thursday OSNews had the opportunity to meet Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, Ximian and among other things leader of the much discussed, Mono project. Miguel is a talented and versatile developer but he is also a very intelligent businessman able to understand the industry on many different levels. Talking to Miguel guarantees that you are very quickly taken away by his enthusiasm and optimism and his thoughtful strategies and vision on how OSS will take over the world.
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@Tepes
by xVariable on Mon 10th May 2004 06:09 UTC

1) Hard drive space is not memory in the way you imply.

1) Afterstep and Fluxbox are not desktop mamangers, they are mere window managers and, thus, cannot be compared to Windows Explorer. There are similar "window manager"-type Explrer replacements available in Windows, too: geOShell comes to mind. You know what? They're faster even than Explorer! The point is, the only legitamate GUIs in Linux (in terms of equivalent functionality) that can be compared to Windows Explorer are much more resource-intensive and, therefore, slower than, Explorer. One cannot reasonably or logically hold-up a simple window manager as an alternative to Linux desktop managers when doing a comparison against Windows.