Stirring The GNOME Fires

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Posted by Hemos on Saturday July 31, 2004 @02:45AM from the battles-rage-on dept.

uninet writes "Tim Butler and Ed Hurst have discussed GNOME quite a bit. Tim likes the current trend, and Ed doesn't. Read Ed's alternate perspective at OfB.biz."

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Uhoh.. by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-07-31 03:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The site's already trashed...

Anybody have a karma-whoratic post of full body text ;-) ??
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- Mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Thurs, Nov 31, @13:37
1. Re:Uhoh.. by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-07-31 03:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Thanks for everyone who posted a response. Now I actually read the story ;)
  
  Too bad for the asswipe moderators who thought this post was "offtopic".
  
  I guess asking for the story to be posted here is "offtopic" when its slashdotted.
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  Mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Thurs, Nov 31, @13:37
Re:quote: by kfg · 2004-07-31 03:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is that clear enough for ya ?

Yes, but it leaves me even fuzzier about your original post.

KFG
Re:Damn Right! by DAldredge · 2004-07-31 04:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Some please explain to me how my above comment is flamebait.
Re:quote: by DAldredge · 2004-07-31 04:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Apple had to warn shareholders that the G5 iMac has been delayed due to Apple inablity to have G5's delivered.
Re:Gnome, apple, Gentoo by dont_think_twice · 2004-07-31 06:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I hate to be the Gentoo zealot, but here goes: The popularity of Gentoo is due to it's simplicity.

I don't use Gentoo because compiling from source is faster. I don't use Gentoo because it allows me to configure everything. I don't use Gentoo because USE flags give me more power over what is installed. I use Gentoo becuase It Just Works.

Let me make an analogy out of it:
Gentoo:OtherLinuxDistros::OSX:Windows

Until Gentoo, I mostly used RedHat, but I had tried others too (Suse, Slackware). None of them provide the simplicity and ease of use as Gentoo.

Apparently, RedHat, Suse and Mandrake are finally providing the ease of installing and upgrading that Gentoo (and Debian) have been providing. Perhaps I will give them a try sometime again in the future, but for now, I am feel like a new OSX user - I can't imagine ever going back to the old way of doing things.
Re:Both GNOME and KDE has miles to go by cozziewozzie · 2004-07-31 09:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The GNOME folks do have some distance to go as well. Desktop integration is still not quite there - some apps play ball, some apps don't. What GNOME does have in its corner is the apps that have the mindshare of most users - Mozilla, Evolution, GAIM, OpenOffice etc. I am not claiming these are "better", just commenting on momentum.

You forgot some other very prominent GNOME applications:

Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office
DooM3
Konqueror...
Re:"Average user" by vsprintf · 2004-07-31 09:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

After reading through all this 0 and -1 flaming desktop zealotry, I think that at the very least Slashdot should not allow AC posts from an address that has already posted a user comment in a discussion or allow user posts from an address that has posted AC in a discussion. The discussions would be probably be much more civil, and if not, the mods could sort it out.