Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman, known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.
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Now Linux has a world-class totally modern graphics system that will last us for the next decade.
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Our goal of Desktop 10 is to build a really easy-to-use, powerful desktop for general knowledge workers. These are people who live in e-mail, in the browser, in the office suite -- not people who need a hundred different applications, but people whose lives really consist of just living in those applications.
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Our turnaround time on fixes for document importing issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty remarkable.
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GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.
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We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.
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The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.
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I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
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As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.