Building an Alternative to Windows" New York Times (02/21/00) P. C4; Markoff, John Four members of the original Apple Macintosh team--Andy Hertzfield, Mike Boich, Susan Kare, and Guy Tribble--have joined forces to redesign the Linux operating system and give it a whole new life in the consumer desktop market. In order to accomplish such a feat, the group formed Eazel Inc. in the fall of 1999, receiving financial support from two former Apple executives. Since its beginnings, Eazel has formed an alliance with a group of Linux programmers, a relationship both sides are hoping will bring their separate areas of expertise together to create a product so user-friendly that individual computer owners will prefer the new Linux over other operating systems, especially Microsoft's Windows. Eazel is to be responsible for the appearance of the new version of Linux, while Eazel's programmer partners will be in charge of restructuring the system's internal design to automate many of the system-configuration and management tasks that often give users trouble. This summer Eazel plans to introduce a free user interface, an icon-based software control system that can be downloaded from the Internet, designed to make their version of Linux much easier to use than Windows-based or Macintosh computers. See: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/21eaze.html -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/