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OSNews: Interview with Taylor & Pennington from Red Hat’s UI Team

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 10, 2002

Red Hat 8 has just been released. How do you feel about
the progress Red Hat has made since its last version in the desktop
and UI field?

Owen ‘OWT’ Taylor: It’s definitely a big step forward.
I think we’ve really gone from a collection of applications to
something that looks and feels integrated with this release. And
visually, I’m really incredibly impressed by what Garrett Lesage,
our new graphic designer, managed to do with this release. I flinch
now every time I see a screenshot of an older release.

Havoc ‘HP’ Pennington: I think it’s great. There are
so many cool enhancements. Of course lots of work remains, but I’m
amazed by how much we got done for 8.0…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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