Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.
Although the sighted community will be missing what seems to be a good
desktop, I don't think the blind community is missing much by not having
Gnome.

          Kenny

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:00:29PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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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.
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> 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
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> >On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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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.
> >
> >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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