Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th May 2004 02:54 UTC
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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Know you think that, the time Longhorn is finally released, that Linux will have similar system requirements? In fact, if the current reality holds, Linux will require *more* than Longhorn (since Linux, in its current form, has much higher system requirements than Windows 2000 or XP).
No it doesn't necessarily. I check my resource usage al the time and Linux uses less mostly, but not by much. Besides, there is stuff you can always turn off, or you can get a lighter desktop, something you cannot really do with windows.
You should also mind the themes you are using, the really good ones can minimise resource usage too.
I live in the third world, and I think hardware costs are ok really. I actually have a fairly top end machine for anywhere in the world and it doesn't really cost that much. I know Durons and the like run Linux farily decently, (I had one) and these are really cheap. Plus if we are planning for the future, they are going to get even cheaper too. windows prices are now really out there. I could build a computer and have software costing about as much as hardware. If I can improve on the hardware instead, I can get an even better experience too and save on software costs.