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Battle Over The Look And Feel Of Linux
David Einstein, Forbes.com, 03.14.00
The open source movement is supposed to be a digital version of Woodstock, with Internet geeks swaying to a happy beat as they conjure up the software of the future--Linux, in particular. Yet dig a little deeper and you'll quickly uncover a nasty struggle over how that operating system will look on personal computers.
The battle involves two graphical user interfaces called Gnome and KDE. Both aspire to look and feel like a combination between Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh. But as yet, both Gnome and KDE fall short of the mark, making users resort to arcane keyboard commands to get the most out of Linux. As a result, despite catching on big as an operating system for networks, Linux has failed to win favor with consumers.
That could be about to change. A well-heeled Silicon Valley startup called Eazel has thrown its weight behind Gnome, and the combination could soon produce a graphical interface that's snazzy and user friendly enough to lift Linux into the big leagues. It could also make Gnome the de facto standard for Linux, relegating KDE to also-ran status.
Founded last August, Eazel is run by the folks who pioneered the Macintosh more than 15 years ago. Cofounder and Chief Executive Michael Boich was the Mac's original evangelist, while cofounder and Software Wizard (yes, that's his title) Andy Hertzfeld created key components of the Mac graphical interface. Eazel's management also boasts Bud Tribble, who managed the original Macintosh software team.
With that pedigree, Eazel is drawing serious attention, and Boich can't be taken lightly when he says "our goal is to surpass Windows and the Mac in usability."
Eazel's technology will be part of the next release of Gnome sometime this summer. Eazel will provide a slick graphical desktop, while Gnome's technology links the interface to the underlying operating system.
Boich claims that most of the big PC makers have expressed interest in the Gnome-Eazel project. If that's the case, Linux could finally have the ammunition it needs to challenge Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC market. (Linux is run on 25% of network servers, but on only 4% of desktop PCs, according to International Data Corp.)
Why did Eazel choose GNOME over KDE , which at this point has more adherents? "Both of them are great pieces of work," says Boich. "But Gnome has architectural features that give it a bigger future in our estimation."
The clash over the Linux interface has been brewing for several years. KDE, which stands for K-Desktop, is the brainchild of Matthias Ettrich, a German programmer who, in 1996, got Linux religion and embarked on a mission to make it more user friendly.
Gnome comes out of the GNU Project, which was launched in 1984 to develop a free operating system based on Unix. The spiritual leader of the Gnome programmers is Miguel de Icaza, a young Mexican who recently started his own company called Helix Code to improve Gnome and develop applications for it, including a word processor.
The backers of Gnome and KDE claim to like each other. That's the politically correct position in the open source world, where everybody likes to be on the same page in the fight against proprietary corporations like Microsoft. In fact, however, they compete fiercely. The situation recalls the long winter after the battle of Fredricksburg, Va., when the Union and Confederate armies were camped on opposite banks of the Rappahannock River. At night, they'd join in song and trade coffee for tobacco. But they later beat each other bloody at Chancellorsville.
Both Gnome and KDE are loosely organized efforts that depend on the kindness of strangers--Internet users who write code for the fun of it and contribute to the greater good of the open source community. The arrival of Eazel marks one of the first times a professional company has become involved in developing basic software for Linux.
Boich and his staff have been working with Icaza to construct an alliance that has both the informality of open source and the guarantees of a business contract. Yet in the end, their relationship comes down to mutual need as much as anything else. "It's clear that the next release of Gnome needs what we're doing, and they've abandoned any efforts to do it themselves," says Boich. And Eazel needs the desktop environment as a platform for its technology. "So we're relying on each other."
Eazel intends to stay true to the open source spirit by making its interface freely available, just as Linux is. But startups don't get $13 million in funding--Eazel's total so far--just so they can give stuff away. Eazel also has a business plan, which is to make money by using the Internet to remotely install, configure and manage Linux desktops for consumers and businesses.
Linux proponents--a breed nearly as rabid in their commitment as Apple users--don't really care who wins the interface war. "It all comes down to what the users choose," says Michael McLagan, who runs the popular Linux Home Page at Linux Online. "At some point we'll start seeing one desktop get installed more than the other, and that's what ends up deciding which one becomes the de facto standard."
One thing is for certain, though, says McLagan: "Getting a fully operational, stable desktop on Linux is mandatory for getting it into consumer hands."
Another expert who remains, in his words, "officially neutral in this particular holy war" is Eric Raymond, the Linux pioneer and author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book about the open source movement. Yet he recognizes the promise that Eazel brings to the young industry.
"Andy Hertzfeld and his crew showed the world how to do GUIs (graphic user interface) 'right' back in 1984," says Raymond. "For them to be bending their efforts to Linux now is probably about the best possible news for Linux on the desktop."
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