GNOME and Novell: The FUD Stops Here
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 13:43.
As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME’s relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.
Due to my position as a director of the GNOME Foundation, it’s important to point out that this post represents my personal views, not those of the Foundation.
Novell and the GNOME Foundation
Novell is a member of the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, along with most of the other companies that play a role in the GNOME community (see the ’sponsors’ section on the front page of the GNOME Foundation website).
Like the GNOME Foundation itself, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board does not define the technical goals of the project. Additionally, it does not have an executive role in the operation of the Foundation.
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Gnome must have system analysis to move on ? fit into browser ?
There is kernels, but it appears that flash cards may take over hdd on desktops. Hdd will stay with servers. Network kernels will stay with operating system? Component drivers may be microkernels underneath the monolithic operating system via Posix packets. Multicore scheduling may be also delivered by Posix packet creation and assignment.
This leaves Gnome in a peculiar position, when browsers took over on demand software for most popular application, which leaves personal multimedia delivery to browsers of ipod, iphone, cdrom/dvd, and other memory storage devices. Even cable set-top boxes can be viewed or heard in browsers. Do scheduled recording. Do scheduled searches and sorting?
Where can Gnome carve out an area of specialties?
Basically browsers need databases in memory devices; it needs spreadsheets to do scheduling; and it needs wordprocessors to do presentation of sorted by time and date on searched data for objects?
No FUD
There was never FUD.