| Interview with Jason Spisak of Redmond Linux [TuxReports] |
Jan. 14, 2002
Here's another interview from "the girls of TuxReports", this time with Jason Spisak, a member of the Board of Advisors of Redmond Linux. The interview provides some interesting background information on the company and its founders. TuxReports writes . . .
"Do you think that Linux can be run on the Desktop so that our Grandma will be able to install it?"
"Install it? Only with the help of the hardware vendors. Use it? Yes, definitely . . ."
"Is it best to update with rpms built for Red Hat 7.2 or 7.1 or maybe a different way?"
"The Update Wizard takes care of all the dependencies and everything, all you do is click the button and go have a sandwich."
"In fact, how will you ensure that it is easy for new software to be installed?
"On this point, the entire linux community must converge so that software developers aren't pulling their hair out, trying to support all the distributions. Redmond Linux will have a wizard-like utility, but the biggest problem is having the software developer either 1) Target a single linux standard or 2) Let them not worry about it and have the ditribution take on the burden of packaging. Since there are a lot more software developers than distros #1 makes more sense, but we aren't there yet as a community, so we all do #2 . . ."
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