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Gnome Removed From Slackware

Posted by Zonk on from the quite-large dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "After long consideration, Pat Volkerding has removed GNOME from Slackware. Pat mentions in the -current ChangeLog that GNOME takes a lot of time to package, so this move should allow more time to be spent on the rest of Slackware." From the changelog: "Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent desktop choice."

4 of 761 comments (clear)

  1. What did you expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bunch of slackers.

  2. Over at OSNews by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can hear Eugenia yelling "I told you so, Gnome developers!"

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    This guy is way out there
  3. I'm sorry... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Netcraft confirms it: In Soviet Russia, only old Koreans use GNOME.

    I, for one, welcome our new KDE overlords.

    1. Remove GNOME from Slackware
    2. ???
    3. Profit!!

  4. Re:KDE 3.4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're dropping KDE as well. This GUI thing has all been a mistake that's gone on long enough.