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Old 18th May 2011
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Thumbs down GNOME will probably become 'linux only' as XFCE did recently

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“The future of GNOME is as a Linux based OS. It is harmful to pretend that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different kernels, user space subsystem combinations, and core libraries. That said, there may be value in defining an application development platform or SDK that exposes higher level, more consistent, and coherent API. But that is a separate issue from how we write core GNOME components like the System Settings.

It is free software and people are free to port GNOME to any other architecture or try to exchange kernels or whatever. But that is silly for us to worry about.

Kernels just aren’t that interesting. Linux isn’t an OS. Now it is our job to try to build one – finally. Let’s do it.

I think the time has come for GNOME to embrace Linux a bit more boldly.”
Of course a person 'behind this' is 'my favorite' linux fanatic Lennart Poettering torturing the World with another his 'great' idea.

SORCES:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/g...d-solaris-unix
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskt.../msg00439.html
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