Who Cares About Wobbly Windows?
Nobody. But I can’t help being impressed! You really have to see/use/try a compositing window manager to appreciate the coolness.
LXF had a great interview with Jeff Waugh on the topic of the evolving Linux desktop. Imagine a thin client with GLX that is faster than VNC! Also, read about his take on the origin of Ubuntu.
LXF has to be the most exciting and inspirational FOSS-centric magazine available today.
Interesting interview. I like where Jeff Waugh points out why Ubuntu is so cool:
“So everything Mark said smelled right. It was like, why hasn’t anyone done this yet?… I’ve been doing some Red Hat admin recently with Enterprise Linux (the Gnome Project uses it). One of the things I noticed about it is that there’s no community. Whereas with Ubuntu and Debian there’s a massive community. People are doing packages for it; there’s like 10,000, 15,000 packages available.”
It’s a little exaggerated — I’ve been administering Red Hat systems for years and you can find packages if you need them — but I think what’s he’s trying to express is that the /barrier/ is much lower. Add some sources to your list. Fire up your package manager. And you’ve got access to the multiverse. Woo de woo…
Comment by fordor — July 11, 2007 @ 9:45 pm CDT