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A lesson

Posted Sep 26, 2012 4:56 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: A lesson by jmalcolm
Parent article: GStreamer 1.0 released

Of course it's possible! It's almost always possible with software!

The only case where this can not be achieved is when you don't have a specs for older system and you don't have a source code to dissect it.

The problem is with attitude: the fact that you need to run third-party fork of GNOME2, not some kind of Classic Environment or WoW from the creators of this "shiny new thing" spokes volumes about their priorities and about their attitude WRT their users.


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A lesson

Posted Sep 26, 2012 12:25 UTC (Wed) by sebas (subscriber, #51660) [Link]

GNOME's attitude WRT to their users seems like the most obvious reasons for those forks to have been incepted.

A lesson

Posted Sep 26, 2012 13:47 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

MATE exists because some people are unhappy with Gnome 3 and want to continue Gnome 2 development. Trinity exists because some people are unhappy with KDE 4 and want to continue KDE 3 development. What further conclusions can you draw?

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