Interview with Havoc Pennington of Red Hat 185
JigSaw writes "OSNews published an interview with Havoc Pennington, the head manager of Red Hat's Desktop department, also known for his freedesktop.org initiative and his very active/leading role in Gnome. Havoc discusses the internal changes on Red Hat, the future of the desktop version of Red Hat Linux, the XFree86 fork Xoutert, GTK+ and Gnome while he characteristically says regarding Linux eating UNIX's marketshare: '...nails are firmly in the UNIX coffin, and it's just a matter of time.'"
You have brought it upon yourself! (Score:0, Funny)
Amazing! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:UNIX is dying? (Score:0, Funny)
What's that rumbling sound? (Score:2, Funny)
Is it an earthquake? A herd of elephants?
No, it's all the SCO jokers, with their (+5, Funny)'s at the ready! Time to run for cover, guys!
Re:What's that rumbling sound? (Score:0, Funny)
Re:UNIX is dying? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:UNIX is dying? (Score:4, Funny)
"Nooooooooooooooooo!"
Heh (Score:3, Funny)
Verisign could have made a lot of money [slashdot.org] by redirecting http://www.freeesktop.org/ and http://www.xoutert.org/ to their own ad pages
Gnome will kill Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere deep inside the secret headquarters of the RedHat/GNOME/Ximian/Mozilla Cabal, there's a hidden document with a list of everything in Unix you know and love, marked with a date for its final expurgation. I think 'ls' is slated to be finally replaced with a symlink to 'nautilus' in 2007. Except that symlinks will have been replaced by ".shortcut" files, which are interpreted by the Mono implementation of GNOME-VFS.
Luckily the spirit on Unix lives on [bell-labs.com].
Havoc Pennington? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This reminds me... (Score:3, Funny)
DOS wasn't perfect, had issues with memory, very large filesystems were not supported, 1.0 did not even have directories and the available commands were a sorry bunch compared to unix, but to say that OS's from the Middle Ages were better is taking it a bit too far, IMHO.
Re:UNIX is dying? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cool name (Score:3, Funny)
It's a bit like naming your son Warlock or Judas.
Possibly his parents were thinking of his adult sex life, like "Go force young beatiful girls and wreak Havoc".
I think this is my worst post ever.
Re:UNIX is dying? (Score:1, Funny)
Somebody set up us the bomb.