Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:29:32 -0400 From: Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Transforming GNOME Into A Linux-Only Project (link) Message-ID: <BANLkTi=ynuUyW7ZZ5e6PPvzcMx5dW8F_cw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Mafs55LVrPmpshMgbPPb08CZ4vw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1305746792.1538.11.camel@xenon> <4DD4DB50.3040402@freebsd.org> <BANLkTi=Mafs55LVrPmpshMgbPPb08CZ4vw@mail.gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Oleg Lelchuk <oleglelchuk@gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:27 AM Subject: Re: Transforming GNOME Into A Linux-Only Project (link) To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Well, I can still start gnome-3.0.1 on my freebsd machine, though if I don't mount procfs, it crashes. I know that procfs is a linux thing. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>wrote: > On 5/18/11 3:26 PM, Michal Varga wrote: > > I'll just leave this here as I'm basically speechless, and it's probably > > not worth commenting anyway. > > > > But for those who might be interested and don't necessarily keep up with > > the latest 'news', clicky: > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ1Nw > > GNOME has been heading down this path since 2.0 was released. It's been > a slow process, but the decisions that were made around hal, devkit, > etc. are unmistakable signs that GNOME is abandoning the OSS desktop in > favor of a Linux desktop. > > Is this a bad idea? Yes and no. These days, people expect a desktop to > have a tight OS integration. They like the ability to have mobility, > hardware awareness, sexy graphics, etc. as part of their desktop > experience. So a desktop can't be completely OS-agnostic. However, > what GNOME and fd.o could have been better about is to make truly open, > well-documented standards so that vendors like Solaris and *BSD could > plug in bits to provide OS integration. Say what you will about hal, > but hal had this. The udev stuff does not. > > To me, GNOME could add OS-level integration and provide clear > delineation as to what is PI and what is PD. The PD stuff should have > open specifications. That's the OSS model. But if the GNOME guys want > to make GNOME into the Linux OS, that's their call. GNOME 2.x is still > open. Perhaps the fork efforts being discussed will take off. > > Joe > > -- > Joe Marcus Clarke > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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