<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> 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> 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>
<a href="http://gsb.sf.net">http://gsb.sf.net</a><br> <a href="http://gware.sf.net">http://gware.sf.net</a><br><br> There is also Dropline, of course, which is quite popular. However, due to<br> their policy of adding PAM and replacing large system packages (like the
<br> entire X11 system) with their own versions, I can't give quite the same sort<br> of nod to Dropline. Nevertheless, it remains another choice, and it's _your_<br> system, so I will also mention their project:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.dropline.net/gnome/">http://www.dropline.net/gnome/</a><br><br> Please do not incorrectly interpret any of this as a slight against GNOME<br> itself, which (although it does usually need to be fixed and polished beyond
<br> the way it ships from upstream more so than, say, KDE or XFce) is a decent<br> desktop choice. So are a lot of others, but Slackware does not need to ship<br> every choice. GNOME is and always has been a moving target (even the
<br> "stable" releases usually aren't quite ready yet) that really does demand a<br> team to keep up on all the changes (many of which are not always well<br> documented). I fully expect that this move will improve the quality of both
<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><br></pre>