Miguel writes: Havoc, you are skipping over the fact that a viable compromise for the community is not a viable compromise for some products, and hence why you see some companies picking a particular technology as I described at length below. To be clear, I don’t mind if companies unilaterally choose a technology to use […]
Christian writes: As for the (l)ongoing language debate I think we need to allow for people to both use Java and C# (or any other language) that has a big enough community around it to ensure that bindings are kept up to date and follows the development of the rest of the desktop. I agree […]
Lots of good replies to my post on higher-level language support in the desktop, including other blogs, private mail, and a lively discussion in the halls and internal lists at Red Hat. I want to try to summarize some of the feedback and answer the details, but not enough time tonight. I do want to […]
I decided life was too boring, we need to finally discuss Mono, Java, and the Linux desktop. Here are my thoughts, hopefully a productive start. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–03.html#17)
Maybe everyone but me already saw this, but Sun rewrites Evolution in Java Swing. Yay, an “open source” mail/calendar client with a dependency on a proprietary JDK. Yay, let’s rewrite a couple million lines of code and fragment the Linux desktop platform; clearly the way to beat Microsoft. In other news, increasing dependencies on the […]
Mike Loukides missed the point of my last post. The virtues of Swing aren’t relevant. Right now you can install Red Hat and Sun JDS and you get the same major components by default: GTK+, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Evolution, Mozilla. Plus the same choices for some of the smaller apps. Ximian was also in sync with […]
Slashdot just posted the DARPA Grand Challenge, Red Hat desktop developer Daniel Reed is participating. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–03.html#8)
How does Mikael watch 40 Buffy episodes in a week? They were showing the whole series on TV a while back, 1 per day, and we tried to keep up. Somewhere in season 2 we gave up in despair at the backlog on videotape. 😉 Ah, the days before Tivo. (This post was originally found […]
GNOME Office feels like a huge missed opportunity to me. OpenOffice.org is clearly the best choice today, but it’s far from perfect. Still, GNOME Office isn’t even competing. To compete, I’m convinced the AbiWord and Gnumeric projects have to merge; it’s that simple. An office suite is a single project. And then those developers should […]
Encouraging posts from some of the GNOME Office hackers. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–03.html#6)