Hi,
Well I agree with this decision. I work here at Sun, and we're going to push for
Gnome to replace CDE. However, it's complete crap, does not port very well and
is completely broken. I think that it's just another example of crappy coding
parented by the bleeding-edge ppl at redhat, who wouldn't know a memory leak
from a hole in their head. I use KDE, on my Solaris, Tru64 Unix, and Slackware
Linux systems without problems. So I fully support this initiative;)
-Octave
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
>To: slackware-alphadevel@slackware.com
>Subject: [slackware-alphadevel] possible removals coming up
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>To anyone on the list that is particularly fond of GNOME:
>
>You might want to make sure you've got a copy of the binary packages and
>(optionally) the source tree from the gtk series as well. I am not likely
>to update to GNOME-1.4 whenever that comes out. Further, the chances that
>it gets removed from the distribution increases with each day.
>
>So if you want to make sure you've got a copy preserved for posterity and
>all that, you might want to copy it some place safe. Note that removing
>GNOME is not the same as removing E, Sawfish, Xchat, and so forth. Those
>things would stay. So would the GIMP, a few libraries, and so forth.
>GNOME proper, though, is in my crosshairs.
>
>I'm sure that someone will want rationale for this. I'll save that until
>someone asks :) No, this is not yet definate. But it's being given very
>serious consideration.
>
>--
>Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
>print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>
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* Unix Systems Administrator * Solaris/Tru64/Linux *
* Sun Microsystems, Inc. * Certified Solaris *
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