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Colin Walters Talks About Debian On The Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the apt-get-comfortable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com caught up with Colin Walters of the Debian Desktop subproject. Launched in late October, the project aims to simplify Desktop Linux. Walters' discusses the project goal to offer 'Software which Just Works' for home and office, new user and expert ... "

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  1. Re:Seriously now.. by fallacy · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not a replacement for either X as a windowing system or Gnome/KDE as desktop environments. It's more of a bringing together of what is available to a tighter binding so that a user can say "I want x type of desktop" (say, developer or a user) and Debian will create such an environment.
    Additionally, any environment which wishes to be included as a DebianDesktop must meet a minimum set of requirements.

    Locations which explain it fair better than I probably have are:
    DebianDesktop
    Debian Desktop Wiki
    Debian Desktop Project Goals
    Debian Desktop Tenets

  2. Debian Desktop project's wiki by cpeterso · · Score: 5, Informative


    The Debian Desktop's project wiki has more details about the project's goals and proposals. It sounds like they are following some of the Red Hat 8.0 lead and trying to create a more unified, task-based system. Their proposals are more than just a new GUI.

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    cpeterso