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Todd Kulesza Leaving Dropline GNOME
Lispy writes "The founder of the popular Dropline GNOME environment for Slackware, Todd Kulesza, announced yesterday that he is leaving his project. In a note on the Dropline homepage he explains that he simply doesn't have the time to maintain three different Open Source projects anymore. With Patrick Volkerding being temporarily out of business and Todd leaving Dropline GNOME, I guess the future for Slackware GNOME fans doesn't look bright these days. Who wants to hop in and continue Dropline?" -
Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support
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.