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Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:02PM from the dances-with-monkeys dept.

Sheepish writes "OSNews features a long and interesting interview with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian Desktop 2 are included too."

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Re:Good one (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:08PM (#6109296)

If you liked that interview, then you will also like many other interviews.

But you don't have to take my word for it!

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Ummm ... as if ... (Score:2, Funny)

by SuperDuG ( 134989 ) writes: <be@@@eclec...tk> on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:15PM (#6109362) Homepage Journal

Why would I use outdated Ximian 2
When KDE [kde.org] is already on version 3
obviously newer and better.

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Re:Ummm ... as if ... (Score:3, Funny)

by Squareball ( 523165 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:18PM (#6109384)

Because with that logic why aren't you using Windows 2000

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Re:Ummm ... as if ... (Score:5, Funny)

by Strike ( 220532 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:30PM (#6109501)

Feh, my Atari 2600 walks all over that Pentium 4 AND your Windows 2000 - combined!

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Get with the times... (Score:5, Funny)

by moreati ( 119629 ) writes: <alex@moreati.org.uk> on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:31PM (#6109509) Homepage

Quote: KDE has way more options (the clock properties dialog has five tabs!),
Actually it has 6 in KDE version 3.1: General, Timezones, Plain Clock, Analogue Clock, Fuzzy Clock.
For some reason I find that amusing. If you're going to drop some FUD, at least get your facts straight.
I'm guessing 3.2 will have 12 or 24 depending on it's mode.

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Re:Get with the times... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @05:58PM (#6109772)

1. General
2. Timezones
3. Plain Clock
4. Analogue Clock
5. Fuzzy Clock

So what is the sixth?

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Re:Ximian Desktop on Red Hat? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @06:05PM (#6109841)

> the main advantage for using Ximian will not be for the home user, but for large corporations.

Ah, that's the reason for including XMMS and other stuff. :-)

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Re:Get with the times... (Score:3, Funny)

by moreati ( 119629 ) writes: <alex@moreati.org.uk> on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @06:12PM (#6109901) Homepage

Oops, I appear to have fudded in a sarcastic fudding actually meant to defud.

OK, as the other AC correctly noted, the sixth is Digital Clock.

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Re:Shocking... (Score:3, Funny)

by Bluesman ( 104513 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @06:50PM (#6110249) Homepage

I was more shocked they're using Emacs.

No wonder they don't want to spend a lot of time there.

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Re:I already don't like this guy. (Score:5, Funny)

by metacosm ( 45796 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @07:04PM (#6110364)

You are jealous that your sister is looking at other guys?

Creepy +1!

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Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell (Score:3, Funny)

by The Bungi ( 221687 ) writes: <thebungi@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @07:57PM (#6110719) Homepage

Please let me know if you get a sensible answer...
I heard it was dying =)

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Re:Ximian and money? (Score:2, Funny)

by larry bagina ( 561269 ) writes: on Tuesday June 03, 2003 @08:36PM (#6110904) Journal

Ximian subscribers get to test alpha releases.
Slashdot subscribers get to check stories for typos and dupes.
I think the Open Source business model needs more work...

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Re:Get with the times... (Score:2, Funny)

by Ed Avis ( 5917 ) writes: <ed@membled.com> on Wednesday June 04, 2003 @04:00AM (#6112942) Homepage

6. Profit!!!

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