Ye Olde Linux Desktop
So Dell decided to ship Ubuntu on the desktop. Doesn’t that bother you guys at all?
To which Shadowman responds:
Let’s go back a few years, to the dawn of the Linux desktop.
Some of you may remember a guy named Havoc Pennington. Those of you who can remember the murky past of the Linux desktop will recall that Havoc was one of the founders of the GNOME Foundation. He was also its first chairman. He also founded freedesktop.org, to help bring together the GNOME and KDE communities through the shared and comforting love of open desktop standards. He was kind of a rock star.
It’s not like Havoc went anywhere. It’s not like he retired from the game, like some sort of geek Sandy Koufax in his prime. He’s still at Red Hat. Which might make one wonder: if Havoc Pennington is still at Red Hat, then why isn’t Red Hat like, totally owning the desktop?
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