After reading my publisher’s statement last month, Bob McMillan
(LM’s executive editor) said to me; “Adam, you really should not write about trade shows every month. People will think you never get out.” Well, they would be right. I never do get out. But, needing to defend myself, I replied with; “But Bob, I do get out. Didn’t we just conduct an interview with Cliff Miller (pg. 60)?” Truthfully, the irony was not lost on me…
Need To Get Out More: Linux Magazine publisher Adam Goodman (top right) ventures out of his lair to join Lonn Johnston (top left) and Cliff Miller (bottom right) of TurboLinux and LM’s executive editor Robert McMillan.
After reading my publisher’s statement last month, Bob McMillan (LM’s executive editor) said to me; “Adam, you really should not write about trade shows every month. People will think you never get out.” Well, they would be right. I never do get out. But, needing to defend myself, I replied with; “But Bob, I do get out. Didn’t we just conduct an interview with Cliff Miller (pg. 60)?” Truthfully, the irony was not lost on me…
Anyway, Bob is in luck this month. Since there are no trade shows I’m forced to think of something else to write about.
I’ve been thinking a lot about a company named Eazel lately (http://www.eazel.com). For those of you who haven’t heard of them, Eazel is a Palo Alto-based startup that is working on a new GUI for Linux. “What?!?” I hear you say, “another user interface for Linux?!? But we already have GNOME and KDE! Why do they want to add to the confusion?” Well, they’re not.
For one thing, they have decided to base their GUI on the…
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