Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support 708
An anonymous reader writes "After Hewlett Packard, who jumped off of supporting GNOME, Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven, and now distributions like Slackware have started to drop GNOME entirely in favor of KDE. Read more about their decision here. It looks like companies as well as distributions start focusing towards one solution." Patrick Volderking's quoted message doesn't announce a final decision to drop GNOME from Slackware, however -- and as the followups in that thread note, it could be interpreted as an endorsement of the good job done by Dropline in packaging GNOME for Slack.
About freakin' time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:About freakin' time (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently you do...
Gnome is Dying! (Score:4, Funny)
Gentoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly! (Score:5, Funny)
In the meantime, I've dropped Gnome on my FC2 box in favor of Windowmaker. It's much much faster, eats many fewer resources, and completely avoids the whole "taskbar" concept. And on the plus-side, my roommates are no longer able to use my computer to do anything because they don't know how to work windowmaker. It's just a blank screen with some funky icons and a paperclip!
Re:bah red hat! (Score:5, Funny)
It seems to be using a lot more resources here.
Re:Excellent... (Score:2, Funny)
Who's Patrick Volderking? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Gentoo! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I like GNOME... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As a long time GNOME user... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Guh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gentoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About freakin' time (Score:1, Funny)
Gno, I dogn't. Gno sir, gnot me.