Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hmm, I suppose this could be an April fools joke, couldn't it? If it's
not, then they certainly picked an interesting date to announce this.

Greg


On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:09:30PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> This may be disturbing news to Slackware users interested in Gnopernicus. 
> Slackware-current has dropped Gnome entirely.  From what I can tell, the 
> reasoning is that it is too unstable.  Here is the entry from the 
> Slackware-current ChangeLog.  For those that don't know, Slackware-current 
> is basically the alpha/beta test directory for the next release of 
> Slackware Linux.
> 
> gnome/*:  Removed from -current, and turned over to community support and 
> distribution.  I'm not going to rehash all the reasons behind this, but 
> it's been under consideration for more than four years.  There are already 
> good projects in place to provide Slackware GNOME for those who want it, 
> and these are more complete than what Slackware has shipped in the past. 
> So, if you're looking for GNOME for Slackware -current, I would recommend 
> looking at these two projects for well-built packages that follow a policy 
> of minimal interference with the base Slackware system:
> 
>     http://gsb.sf.net
>     http://gware.sf.net
> 
> There is also Dropline, of course, which is quite popular.  However, due 
> to their policy of adding PAM and replacing large system packages (like 
> the entire X11 system) with their own versions, I can't give quite the 
> same sort of nod to Dropline.  Nevertheless, it remains another choice, 
> and it's _your_ system, so I will also mention their project:
> 
>     http://www.dropline.net/gnome/
> 
> Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME 
> itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished 
> beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a 
> decent desktop choice.  So are a lot of others, but Slackware does not 
> need to ship every choice.  GNOME is and always has been a moving target 
> (even the "stable" releases usually aren't quite ready yet) that really 
> does demand a team to keep up on all the changes (many of which are not 
> always well documented).  I fully expect that this move will improve the 
> quality of both Slackware itself, and the quality (and quantity) of the 
> GNOME options available for it.
> 
> Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work.  Enjoy.  :-)
> 
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