[LAU] Debian desktop news

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Thu Aug 9 11:37:25 UTC 2012


On Thursday 09 August 2012 07:34:50 david did opine:

> On 08/09/2012 01:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 August 2012 07:07:23 david did opine:
> >> Debian is dropping GNOME3 as their default desktop environment, and
> >> going with XFCE. Why? Because they can't fit Debian+GNOME3 onto a
> >> single CD.
> > 
> > I'll bet it would fit, if they would just remove all the code that is
> > in there just to nanny us.
> 
> But then it wouldn't be GNOME3, would it? ;-)

Gnome4 maybe?  Surely that would be worthy of a higher version number, 
indicating real progress.

Cheers, Gene
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