On 8/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charlie O</b> <<a href="mailto:obelin23@gmail.com">obelin23@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre>This is from the Slackware changelog, dated March 26 of this year.<br><br>gnome/*: Removed from -current, and turned over to community support and<br> distribution. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons behind this, but it's
<br><br> been under consideration for more than four years. There are already good<br> projects in place to provide Slackware GNOME for those who want it, and<br> these are more complete than what Slackware has shipped in the past. So, if
<br><br> you're looking for GNOME for Slackware -current, I would recommend looking at<br> these two projects for well-built packages that follow a policy of minimal<br> interference with the base Slackware system:<br>
<br><br> <a href="http://gsb.sf.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://gsb.sf.net</a><br> <a href="http://gware.sf.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://gware.sf.net</a></pre></blockquote><div><br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><pre> I fully expect that this move will improve the quality of both<br><br> Slackware itself, and the quality (and quantity) of the GNOME options
<br> available for it.<br><br> Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work. Enjoy. :-)<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>
Ahh, thanks. I hadn't seen that in the changelog. I
personally don't mind that GNOME is being dropped, as I never use
it. Nor do I use KDE. fvwm for me!<br>
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To clarify, I think I misread that he was taking off Xorg which is what I couldn't see him doing.<br>
<br>-- <br>-Shawn<br><br>-Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. <br>