Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL
Gnome project cofounder and current Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza says he's done wrestling with Linux on the desktop, and that he now uses Apple kit exclusively for all of his workstation needs.
De Icaza is well known in the open source community for developing a number of client-side technologies for Linux, including the Midnight Commander file shell, the Gnome desktop environment, and the Mono project.
But in a blog post on Tuesday, de Icaza wrote that not only does he no longer use Linux for his day-to-day computing needs, but he hasn't actually booted his Linux workstation since October 2012. In fact, he says, he hasn't even bothered to plug it in. Read more...
Fedora dons the new Gnome
The next version of Fedora will be the first major Linux distribution to use the radically updated Gnome as its default desktop interface.
This OS, whose beta version was released Tuesday, will also feature a reworked boot loading system.
"Fedora 15 has some pretty large feature changes," said Jared Smith, who is the Fedora project leader, noting that, by way of comparison, Fedora 14 had more fine-tuning, under-the-cover changes. Read more...