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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. YAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fizzle Pozzzile

  2. Just saying hi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First? post?

  3. You know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know, if the editors actually read their own site, they would see that this has been talked about here for days, not least in every recent thread about Gnome.

  4. gnome is cooler by hooqqa · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's just a cooler name, and since we run elf binaries... I just hate the name KDE, I hate it.

  5. Re:I like GNOME... by idesofmarch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hate to reply to a sig, but first, you are breaking the law by selling your vote. Second, you are an embarrasment to all conservatives for offering to sell yourself so cheap. Third, you are promoting a pyramid scam. Bah!