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Day: GNOME OSDay: GNOME OSPosted Aug 8, 2012 2:43 UTC (Wed) by slashdot (guest, #22014)Parent article: Day: GNOME OS
Translation: most distributions no longer ship our software nor believe in us, so we are going to make our own distribution.
Problem: they would also need to ship their own hardware for it to work (esp. on "touch devices"), which requires convincing someone to invest in a platform with "GNOME OS" rather than, say, Android or Ubuntu with Unity or an Android + "Ubuntu for Android" combo.
Good luck with that.
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Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 8, 2012 5:51 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
translation: Did not actually read blog post.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 9, 2012 17:55 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
His name is 'slashdot', what did you expect?
Not that I think the GNOME OS is such a stellar idea but it's not too stupid either. It'll probably be Fedora based, hope that won't piss off any more people :D
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 14:06 UTC (Fri) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link]
I hope and expect that some of the technologies driven by GNOME make their way into Fedora. Improving the quality of what we make in GNOME is the entire point of the effort.
And just speaking for myself, I will avoid doing anything in GNOME that would harm our ability to be used in larger software collections. For example, I designed the build system to *not* have any duplicate metadata, and I want things like the devel/runtime split to be standardized upstream, so they can be consumed by all of RPM spec files, debian/rules, bitbake recipes, etc.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 14:12 UTC (Fri) by walters (subscriber, #7396) [Link]
The last bit is http://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/build-api.txt by the way.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 1:17 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] slashdot surely overstates the case. Nevertheless, I think it's interesting that Debian is going to make the default desktop XFCE in the next release. They claim it's to save space on a minimal desktop CD image, but that's still got to be of some concern to the GNOME crowd.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 14:33 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]
we actually had Jordi Mallach as a representative for Debian at the Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC, and we had good discussions and collaboration on how to improve the Debian packaging of GNOME. plus, the GNOME OS/Testable effort will make it easier for Debian (and other distributions) to do QA on GNOME, and to package it more quickly.
the XFCE thing has been considerably overblown in places like Slashdot and Phoronix.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 15:20 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] the XFCE thing has been considerably overblown... OK, if you say so. I guess confidence is good.
Day: GNOME OS Posted Aug 10, 2012 16:27 UTC (Fri) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]
the change is in unstable, and it's not been automatically propagated to Wheezy.
after the change Joss made, a lot of the GNOME packages have been resumbitted with a different compression, which makes it easier to switch back to GNOME as the default UI.
but even if that weren't the case: the important thing to take away is that the GNOME project is engaged in productive discussions with all downstream packagers, and it's actively trying to improve the QA and development for both distributons and software developers - something that has been a sore point of the project for many years.
obviously, we get kicks in the head both if we don't do things, or if we do, so it's par for the course, I guess.
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