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FreeBSD an officially supported GNOME platform

Posted by Nik on from the BSD-and-GNOME-in-one-story.--Oh-God. dept.

GlockaDe writes: "FreeBSD is now a supported platform for the GNOME project. This means that now, new GNOME releases will not ship unless they successfully build and run on FreeBSD. The actual note is buried in these minutes."

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  1. Re:Err, does that mean... by Guy+Harris · · Score: 4
    For instance, Windows VMWare under Wine?

    No, that's not good enough - Wine runs native on FreeBSD.

    You want to run Linux VMware on the FreeBSD running on VirtualPC, and then run NT on VMware.

    Then you can run Hercules on NT (yes, it runs on Linux as well, so you could run Linux on VMware instead)...

    ...and boot the S/390 version of Linux on that.

    No, wait, you do want to run Linux on VMware. Then you'd run the NT version of Hercules under Wine....

  2. that's two for BSD! by iso · · Score: 4

    what a co-incidence! Apple recently stated that they wouldn't ship any future version of Aqua until it compiles on Darwin! go BSD! ;)

    - j

  3. Good one, Nik. by Karma+Sucks · · Score: 4
    Way to go Slashdot in pressuring the GNOME Foundation to make sure GNOME 1.4 works on FreeBSD.

    The above link is more than a month old, and what's noteworthy now is that Nautilus is not supported on FreeBSD. Nautilus is GNOME 1.4. To complicate matters, GNOME 1.4 is way behind schedule, and before this article on Slashdot, I don't think FreeBSD was a priority at all!

    In short, this article should strong-arm the GNOME Foundation into delaying GNOME even more, for better or for worse.

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