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Gnome Removed From Slackware

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. Terri Schiavo DEAD at 41 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - right-wing pawn Terri Schiavo was found dead in her Florida hospice this morning. She died in the same way she had lived her entire life; brain dead and starved. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her drooling, uncontrollable bowel discharges and random grunts, there's no denying her contributions as a fund raising meat-poster for the Christian right. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Terri Schiavo DEAD at 41 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms!

  2. Re:Also from the Changelog by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod as funny, mods. Good analogy :)

  3. Best. Trolling. Ever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Best. Trolling. Ever.

    Actually she's now Florida's official vegetable! She'll be appearing at Piggly Wiggly grand openning this Thursday in Orlando. First 100 customers get drooled on!

  4. Re:SPLINTER CELL IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you need some mental treatment. I yous should also need to see the other side of the picture how the Christians have killed people in Vietnam and WWI and WWII and Iraq War I and Iraq War II.

  5. Re:SPLINTER CELL IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How old are you, 12? Are those the best examples you can think of? Sad... For starters try looking up the Crusades sometime...

  6. Regarding my sister by CedgeS · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you saying that Bob's sister and John's sister, are, err, easier than my sister?

  7. Re:Also from the Changelog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The first wave of caffiene slowly dripped it's way through the blood-brain barrier while I was thinking about the many hours I had in front of me.

  8. Try shutting the fuck up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try shutting the fuck up. Go back to your masturbation.

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

    Just interested - if anyone knows.....

  10. 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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  11. Re:Gnome is for fags by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I have no sex with anyone, male or female, and I think slackware fucking sucks.

    Slackware is for eunuchs.

  12. 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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  13. Re:"right wing pawn" for left-wing sheep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    She already is dead.. brain dead, that is. Have you see the CAT scans? She's a corpse being kept fresh and warm by a feeding machine. I have no idea why the righties are so hell-bent on keeping her that way. What's next, digging up Grandpa's embalmed body and sitting him at the dinner table?

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

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

  15. Re:"right wing pawn" for left-wing sheep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only matched by people who would execute criminals even when knowing that some of them are innocent of the crime. That was one of those things a "Witler" was known to do.

  16. 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.

  17. 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