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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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.
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Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.
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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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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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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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I'm personally working on converting about 250,000 different Windows machines to Linux desktops, primarily in European government.
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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.
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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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We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,
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It makes it clear to people what a virtual workspace is.
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I started hacking in Mono a few months ago for some personal projects, and was very impressed with how complete and usable it is.
desktop
Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.
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We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.