Fairfax: Using windows to rival Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 4, 1999

An interview with Carsten Haitzler, author of Enlightenment.

“Twenty three-year-old Haitzler won the attention of Red Hat
founder, Marc Ewing, in 1997 following the young programmer’s
invention of the Enlightenment window manager. Ewing invited
Haitzler to Linux Expo in the US before offering him the job
working with Red Hat’s user-interface team at Red Hat Advanced
Development Labs. Haitzler returned to Australia to finish his
final year of university before emigrating to the US, where he now
lives in Chapel Hill, a university town in North Carolina, about 15
minutes from Red Hat’s headquarters.”

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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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