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Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday July 20, 2002 @10:21AM from the popular-view-these-days dept.

anguished writes "The future of Linux, its best hopes for blowing past everything else on an x86 machine, once was located in a little Austrailai website, with a window manager called Enlightenment, which we all hoped to be good enough to build and configure. In an interview with Linux and Main, the recently silent Rasterman talks about GNOME, KDE, E, and his view that the future of Linux requires new playing fields."

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How hard would it be to emulate a Mac? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @10:54AM (#3922355)

If you could run MacOS on top of linux, I bet you'd get a lot of people using both. I know I would.

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Apple is way deader! (Score:5, Funny)

by feldsteins ( 313201 ) writes: <scott@@@scottfeldstein...net> on Saturday July 20, 2002 @10:59AM (#3922377) Homepage

Apple has you beat by a mile. It's been dying twice a year since the mid-80's.

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Windows has won. Face it. (Score:3, Funny)

by jsse ( 254124 ) writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @11:10AM (#3922432) Homepage Journal

Has it? Has the battle ended already? Do we have a closing date in this battle?

Or you just feel tired and rest behind the lane, yell at the runners "We lost! Face it! Do you hear me? We lost, dudes!"

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Re:Suggestions for a base? (Score:5, Funny)

by Radical Rad ( 138892 ) writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @11:26AM (#3922493) Homepage

I am serious about putting TechnophobeLinux together. Please reply if you are interested in helping.
I hope you change the name for Christ's sake. Hell, even "AnalProbeLinux" would sound friendlier than that!

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Re:Linux for Grandma and Uncle Jim-Bob (Score:3, Funny)

by Dolly_Llama ( 267016 ) writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @11:47AM (#3922597) Homepage

GNU/Bob!

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Re:Apparently... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @11:53AM (#3922627)

...Linux is the new Punk Rock.
You mean it ceased to be innovative in 1980?
That works.

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Rasterman (Score:3, Funny)

by haroldhunt ( 199966 ) writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @12:41PM (#3922809) Homepage

Rasterman: Desktop Linux is Dead

10 years later...

Desktop Linux: Rasterman is Dead

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Re:Desktop is dead! (Score:4, Funny)

by mickwd ( 196449 ) writes: on Saturday July 20, 2002 @02:11PM (#3923242)

"What if your email could be read to you automatically when you walked into your apartment?"

When I eventually get the girl of my dreams to come back to my apartment, the last thing I want to hear is:

"MickWd, get that larger penis you always wanted"

"Hey, MickWd, this is Naughty Nancy. I'm horny and waiting for your call"

"MickWd, having problems getting it up ? Try our new Viagra"

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