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Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-stop-you-from-using-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After Hewlett Packard, who jumped off of supporting GNOME, Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven, and now distributions like Slackware have started to drop GNOME entirely in favor of KDE. Read more about their decision here. It looks like companies as well as distributions start focusing towards one solution." Patrick Volderking's quoted message doesn't announce a final decision to drop GNOME from Slackware, however -- and as the followups in that thread note, it could be interpreted as an endorsement of the good job done by Dropline in packaging GNOME for Slack.

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  1. Gentoo! by maskedbishounen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll let the zealots take over from here... ;~)

    --
    "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
    1. Re:Gentoo! by BottleCup · · Score: 5, Funny

      With gentoo, your system no longer runs slow because it is unoptimized. It now runs slow because you're always busy compiling something to make it more optimized.

  2. Exactly! by casuist99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do we have to follow the conceptual desktop UI that MS has laid out? Linux should follow the path to what makes using it easier. A single button under which everything is nested seems unnecessary - there have to be better ideas out there.

    In the meantime, I've dropped Gnome on my FC2 box in favor of Windowmaker. It's much much faster, eats many fewer resources, and completely avoids the whole "taskbar" concept. And on the plus-side, my roommates are no longer able to use my computer to do anything because they don't know how to work windowmaker. It's just a blank screen with some funky icons and a paperclip!