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
evolution mono depends
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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We expect that developers from a variety of projects will come to Better Desktop.org and review these results to see firsthand how they can improve the design of different applications, desktops and distributions. Ultimately, improved usability will help Linux succeed on the desktop.
past product taken
We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,
catalog install missing people quick software
One of the things that people like about apt-get is having an easy-to-use software catalog at their fingertips, so if you want to install some missing software on your machine, you can do it with a quick command.
desktop linux users
Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.
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Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.
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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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GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.
result work
We're offloading a lot of the work to the hardware. The result is things look and feel a lot smoother.
desktop
Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.
document issues time turnaround
Our turnaround time on fixes for document importing issues is actually averaging 24-48 hours, which is pretty remarkable.
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We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.