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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."

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  1. Whats Pats latest health status? by nighty5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just interested - if anyone knows.....

  2. Speaking of Slackers.... by simetra · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    There's a pretty good ska group called The Slackers. Their site, oddly enough, is www.theslackers.com

    You can download several of their tunes from amazon.com I believe. It's pretty good stuff.

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  3. No, it's not ironic Alanis... by quinkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    And I quote: "Irony is the use of words in a way to conceal true intention with literal intention. More clearly, irony is when you say one thing but mean another."

    Please refer to this page for further definitions, etymology, examples, etc.

    Q. (The Pedant)

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  4. awesome by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, as long as there's a Process(tm)!

  5. Re:KDE 3.4 by rapidweather · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Same here, and don't forget the mouse cursor. I run my Knoppix remaster, and the fonts carry over into Icewm and Fluxbox.

    The fonts are a minor problem compared to the other problems Windows XP has, such as running a small business program such as Avimark, along with AOL that the owner wants, and getting the firewall(s) to permit network connections to Avimark, AOL.

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  6. Damn Night Elves! by Psykechan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It seems that everyone plays Night Elves these days and no one even thinks about rolling up a Gnome.

    Sure you see Humans and Dwarves but they are mostly paladins. Night Elves rule the alliance and us poor Gnomes get stepped on.

    Now we've been removed from Slackware? This is unacceptable! We will stage another Million Gnome March until we are given the respect that we...

    What? Linux? Oh. Can you run WoW on it?

    nm