Slackware is dropping Gnome

Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net
Sat Apr 2 01:00:29 EST 2005


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Well, I maintain a mirror of slackware-current on my ftp server, and 
gnome has in fact been removed. I don't think they're joking folks.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow said

> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
> Actually, it was buried in with several other things dated 3/26/05, so I'd 
> say it's no joke.  I guess when the next version of Slackware comes out, I 
> will be trying to download one of those other Gnome packages.  Well, I 
> haven't gotten Gnopernicus to work in Slackware 10.1 anyway, but I haven't 
> really put much effort into it.
>
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