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Novell to Standardize on GNOME

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the rollin-with-my-gnomies dept.

Motor writes "In what must be one of the least unexpected announcements of recent times, Novell says that they are standardizing on one desktop rather than supporting two different codebases. From the article: 'Novell is making one large strategic change. The GNOME interface is going to become the default interface on both the SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Novell Linux Desktop line. KDE libraries will be supplied on both, but the bulk of Novell's interface moving forward will be on GNOME.'"

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  1. Re:Do any major distros standardize on KDE? by dotcomrade · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slackware 10.2 dropped Gnome altogether.

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    - there is too a spoon
  2. Re:Do any major distros standardize on KDE? by Pop69 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slackware doesn't even include the Gnome desktop anymore.

    PV is of the opinion that it's just too much hassle to compile and package as far as I remember.

    Having compiled a Gnome desktop as part of LFS I can agree with him. All those little bits of library are a monumental pain in the arse to configure and compile just to get something that can be done by compiling 2 or 3 large packages in KDE