Eazel was a computer software company based in Mountain View, California. Staffed with former employees of Apple Computer, Netscape, Be, Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Eazel's goal was to produce the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME desktop environment on the Linux operating system. Shortly after releasing Nautilus 1.0, Eazel went out of business in May 2001 after being unable to secure additional venture funding. The Nautilus file manager continued to be updated by the open source community. A screenshot of computer software in action. ... For the community near Martinez, California, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... Be, Incorporated was the company that developed the BeOS operating system and BeBox computer. ... Linuxcare (now Levanta) was a San Francisco-based company founded in 1998 by Dave Sifry, Art Tyde and Dave LaDuke. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is an international computer technology corporation with 2005 global annual sales of US$42. ... Red Hat, Inc. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. ... The GNOME project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software considered free by the Free Software Foundation. ... Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
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Eazel was founded by veterans of some of the most successful consumer endeavors in computing history.
Eazel's work was an extension of the GNOME user interface that sought to make a Linux graphical interface as easy to use as those in the popular Macintosh and AOL systems.
Eazel, the brainchild of Mac OS co-author Hertzfeld, got as far as releasing version 1.0 of its Nautilus interface in March.
Eazel was a computer software company based in Mountain View, California.
Staffed with former employees of Apple Computer, Netscape, Be, Linuxcare, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Eazel's goal was to produce the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME desktop environment on the Linux operating system.
Shortly after releasing Nautilus 1.0, Eazel went out of business in May 2001 after being unable to secure additional venture funding.
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