Linda Sadlouskos, of [email protected] Week, reports on Eazel, a Palo Alto, Calif. startup formed by some key Apple ex-employees with the objective of creating an improved GUI for Linux desktop users. Sadlouskos writes . . .

“When the team that designed the original Apple Macintosh got together to create a new face for Linux on the desktop, people started to wonder if lightning could
strike twice.”

“Mike Boich, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, and Bud Tribble — the core of the group responsible for the PC that turned the computer industry and popular culture on its head in the early 1980s – last summer formed a company called Eazel. The team is working on a file manager and graphical shell for the open source Gnome desktop computing environment for Linux.”

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