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Jim Gettys is a living legend in the Linux and Unix community. He started the original X Window System which today forms the basis of the Linux and Unix GUI. Today Jim is still active in the community working at Compaq making Linux and X run on the iPaq. He was also elected to the GNOME Foundation board by GNOME hackers. Jim Gettys is (as you might expect) an extremely busy man, but I was lucky enough to catch up with him for a few questions.
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Between the 5th and 9th of April GUADEC 2 was being held in Copenhagen, Denmark. GUADEC is the annual GNOME Users and Developers European Congress. This was the second GUADEC and a lot of things have happened in the GNOME community since the previous one, something which was clearly mirrored by the fact that there was around 180 participants this year, a growth of over 100% compared to last year. Unfortunately I didn't get to go to GUADEC last year, but this year I did and this is my account of how I experienced GUADEC 2. This article is a mix of a personal diary, impressions, rumors and hopefully some facts. In other words if you want a ?correct' account of GUADEC 2 with just GNOME related stuff then this article is probably not what you want to read, this article is just my ramblings.
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Eazel is not an old company, yet they already have had a fair share of ups and downs. Their entry into the Linux scene was widely applauded and their work on Nautilus has been greatly anticipated. With that in mind, the downturn (which came as a direct result of the slowing US economy) came as a big shock to those inside and outside of Eazel. In the middle of this difficult process of change for Eazel, Nautilus 1.0 was released. To find out more about all of this, and how Eazel plans to put their current problems behind them and move forward once more, I talked to Bart Decrem, Darin Adler, Ken Kocienda and Maciej Stachowiak.
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While the spreadsheet was the definitive killer app of the personal computer in the early years, this position was soon taken over by the wordprocessor. No desktop application is now as indispensable as the word processor is to the average computer user. Everyone from church secretaries to top level high flying consultants of the business world rely on a wordprocessor to perform their tasks. One of the free software projects which have long worked to provide this essential tool to the computer users is AbiWord. AbiWord, unlike most free software projects, is truly multiplatform with native GUI on all its supported platforms. To get updated on the latest events of this popular project we managed to get Dominic Lachowicz to talk with us. Dom is one of the most active developers of the project and maintainer of the AbiWord GNOME front-end.
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The core of the Unix GUI has for many years been X. Whether X is really a good choice to be the
engine of a modern desktop GUI is something which is being discussed from time to time in various Linux community forums. Personally I am not one of those who feel that X is ready for retirement, but when I by coincidence ran across Stefan Seefeld on IRC a little while back I jumped at the opportunity to do an interview with him. Stefan Seefeld is the leader of the Berlin Project, the project which most people refer to when alternatives to X are being discussed.. So if you want to learn more about the project that many feel could pose a serious challenge to X's dominance of the Unix desktop, please read on.
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Things may be a bit bumpy in the Linux startup arena, but life goes on. And as such, Ximian is doing a survey. Here's the scoop:
"Win a DVD player & help the Linux community at the same time.
Fill out a brief survey on how you use Linux and how you'd
like it to improve and have a chance to win a DVD player.
Go to the: Ximian Survey
Survey results will be posted at this site."
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During Linux World Expo in San Jose last August the GNOME Foundation was announced. Many leading companies in the industry pledged their support. Now 6 months later, in a series of interviews we will talk with the companies involved, to try to find out more about their plans for GNOME and what they hope to get in return for their investments. In this the fifth installment of this series, we talk to Gaël Duval, creator of Linux Mandrake and Vice-President of Mandrakesoft.
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In the Linux community there are a lot of projects getting started everyday. Some die quickly, others hang on for a little while before dwindling away. Then there are a few which seem to explode onto the scene overnight and quickly gain lots of user and developer support. The truth of projects like these are usually that they have been the target of some hard and talented work for a long time by a single hacker or just a small group of hackers, before being discovered by the rest of the world and catching on. One of the projects which recently seemed to burst onto the Linux scene out of nowhere with explosive power is GStreamer. In this interview with project founder Erik Walthinsen we will discover that there was nothing overnight about GStreamer's recent rise to fame at all, rather the hard work off a dedicated team. This hard work has really paid of with Erik getting hired by
embedded Linux distribution company RidgeRun, Inc. to work fulltime on GStreamer.
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During Linux World Expo in San Jose last August the GNOME Foundation was announced. Many leading companies in the industry pledged their support. Now 6 months later, in a series of interviews we will talk with the companies involved, to try to find out more about their plans for GNOME and what they hope to get in return for their investments. In the fourth installment of this series, we talk to Miguel de Icaza, CTO and co-founder of Ximian and founder of the GNOME project.
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During Linux World Expo in San Jose last August the GNOME Foundation was announced. Many leading companies in the industry pledged their support. In a series of interviews we will talk with the companies involved, to try to find out more about their plans for GNOME and what they hope to get in return for their investments. In the third installment of this series, we talk to David Mason, Manager for the Red Hat Labs.
Update: We have a response from Troll Tech regarding some of the comments about QT.
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