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DEs need to build their own distrosDEs need to build their own distrosPosted Feb 9, 2012 18:37 UTC (Thu) by ndye (subscriber, #9947)In reply to: DEs need to build their own distros by Company Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu
... it's certainly been a desire of us GNOME community for a while now to define a platform and not to be "just" a desktop on top of some platform. And that desire is precisely the problem for many in the . . . audience of any $DesktopEnvironment: I want the choice to exploit my favorite $DE features on Linux, *BSD, Haiku, HURD, etc. If I have to reinvent those features between platforms, we've chucked the code reuse value of OpenSource or FLOSS in the bonfire.
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