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In other words, it rocks I'm in the press room at Linux World Expo in San Jose, resting my butt and wishing I had time to write more. I don't, so I'll list a highlight. There's just one: Eazel. Bud Tribble told me yesterday that there really aren't that many former Apple folks at Eazel. But it's hard to ignore the significance of just five: Andy Hertzfeld, Mike Boich, Susan Kare, Mike Homer and Bud himself. Eazel is a Finder. It fills the same role for Linux that the Finder has for Apple since Andy wrote it back in the late Pleistocene and Susan gave us all those pixel-perfect icons. More importantly, it does four things:
It was fun running into Andy Hertzfeld at the Eazel suite, and flattering to find that he not only knew me, but liked my writing — in particular what I wrote about Steve Jobs a few years back. Knocked me out. I've always been a big Andy fan. By the way, between Gnome and Eazel is a Gnome distribution called Helixcode, which is instrumental to Eazel's success. Neat company. Nat Friedman, one of Helixcode's co-founders, spoke at a couple of Linux For Suits* events, where he was very entertaining, original and smart. *I had a knockout idea for the new Linux For Suits site. Can't wait to make it happen. (The current one is just an archival placeholder.)
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