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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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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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.
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.
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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.
clear people virtual
It makes it clear to people what a virtual workspace is.
writing hard-work people
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#.
people machines use
There are a lot of people whove 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.
people tools use
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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.
american-businessman carpet layer package
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
desktop
Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.
aiming american-businessman desktop documented human interface open project simplicity source
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.