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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.'"

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  1. Re:Moving targets by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Anyone else getting sick of these "My Gentoo is so superior to your distro" responses?

    You know, I'm sure gentoo is a good distro, I like the idea of a ports-based system, and maybe I'll try it in the future; but what do you Gentoo folks expect me to do? Rip up and replace my entire system?

    I actually need my computer for work. My work on Gnome doesn't require a whole new paradigm... Gentoo does.

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