On 8/30/05, Charlie O <obelin23 at gmail.com> wrote: > > This is from the Slackware changelog, dated March 26 of this year. > > gnome/*: Removed from -current, and turned over to community support and > distribution. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons behind this, but it's > > been under consideration for more than four years. There are already good > projects in place to provide Slackware GNOME for those who want it, and > these are more complete than what Slackware has shipped in the past. So, if > > you're looking for GNOME for Slackware -current, I would recommend looking at > these two projects for well-built packages that follow a policy of minimal > interference with the base Slackware system: > > > http://gsb.sf.net > http://gware.sf.net > > <snip> I fully expect that this move will improve the quality of both > > Slackware itself, and the quality (and quantity) of the GNOME options > available for it. > > Folks, this is how open source is supposed to work. Enjoy. :-) > > 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! To clarify, I think I misread that he was taking off Xorg which is what I couldn't see him doing. -- -Shawn -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050830/85b0fe56/attachment.htm