| Meet the Perens [LinuxWorld] |
Jan. 23, 2003
Joe Barr interviews open source evangelist Bruce Perens about a variety of issues for LinuxWorld. Issues covered by Perens are varied and include some discussion of installation issues under Linux and application coverage for the office . . .
" . . . In the long term, installation cannot stay a differentiator because it is an easy problem to solve. This means that we need to choose one of these installers that is open-source and all pretty much pool our resources on it. Certainly on the Debian side we do. I think we could even do it in common with Red Hat if we wanted to . . . "
"Think of what the typical office worker does with their system, and think of the open-source tools to provide those things: Web-browsing, an office suite and we have a very nice drag-and-drop file-manager in Nautilus. I'm sure there is something similar on the KDE side. I think we have 80 percent of what office workers need to do their job. I think that you could put that on the desks of 80 percent of the office workers in the world . . . "
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[Read part one of Joe Barr's interview here].
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