Re: Ubunto
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, B1ll Gat3s wrote:
On 15/10/2011 10:06 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
A couple of people are maintaining forks, or things that look vaguely
like forks:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162
http://k3rnel.net/2011/05/26/project-bluebubble/
The history of GNOME forks is not an encouraging one, though. These two
won't last through the winter.
If G3 is as bad as people say, one of these might persist after
dominating over the other, unlike the case where the official
distribution is on a par qualtiy-wise with the forks.
It is possible, yes. However, at this point, i think a forked GNOME 2 is
effectively in a competition with XFCE. GNOME 2 is currently ahead in
terms of sophistication, but given the current sizes of the development
communities, it won't stay that way. It's possible that XFCE will not
develop to the same level of complexity as GNOME 2, and instead stay lean
and simple; however, that would be the first time in recorded software
history that this has happened.
Just because it's no longer available at the same time as the OS with
a one-stop shop doesn't mean it's impossible to get and install it,
period, you know.
We know. But it's largely irrelevant.
I disagree.
Your disagreement, of course, is also irrelevant. I and thousands of other
users have voted with our package managers.
tom
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