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HP Drops Gnome 2 Efforts

Posted by timothy on from the but-gnomeses-is-gentle-yesss dept.

nauta writes "Now is official, HP will not make further investments in Gnome. They will stick with the old (and crappy) CDE. Here is the announcement This is the official statement if they are pressed for an explanation: 'The open source development of GNOME v2.0 was still on-going at the end of 2002, and did not stabilize in the timeframe that HP had earlier anticipated. This and other business and industry factors required us to re-assess our plans.'"

3 of 141 comments (clear)

  1. woo hoo... by charstar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    HP-UX on the desktop is just a dumb idea anyways.

  2. Re:Moving targets by JJahn · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I've compiled gnome from source before. Here's what I did:

    emerge gnome

    I really love Gentoo's portage, in fact I wish every distro including something like it or Debian's apt (another great package system).

  3. Re:haha by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    > What does "stabilize" mean, anyway? Halting devel work on GNOME 2 because work on GNOME 3 has started?

    Hint: If you're using an HP workstation, you're probably not using it to keep up with the state of the art in fancy desktops.

    If my boss is paying me $100K per year to do CAD, and then he buys me a brand-new $20K CAD package that runs fine under CDE, and it just happens to work under GNOME (for about a week before another dependency makes it stop working again), guess what desktop I'm gonna be using?