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OSCON highlights new kind of community, componentized Linux, and GNOME desktop (NewsForge)
Here's some OSCON
coverage from NewsForge. "Talk of a new type of software
development community that spills into more traditional communities such as
towns, churches and country clubs was matched with a new kind of
pick-and-choose, componentized Linux distribution, and renewed efforts to
push Gnome to desktop success at OSCON's second to last day."
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GNOME trying to appeal to a least common denominator desktop (NewsForge) Posted Jul 31, 2004 16:09 UTC (Sat) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link] Having seen it stated so boldly, I just want to understand, why? Was the user community deemed inadequate for using all the features of 1.4? Is the new target audience inadequate for all the features? Maybe adequacy is not even the issue maybe there is something I'm missing.
Just tell me what is the point for taking this flexible desktop and devolving it into the least common denominatior?
GNOME trying to appeal to a least common denominator desktop (NewsForge) Posted Aug 1, 2004 2:54 UTC (Sun) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Though it didn't come across clearly in this article, the speaker (oh hey, that's me!) made it very clear during the talk that GNOME was *NOT* aiming at the lowest common denominator - rather, the greatest common factor. That's a very important distinction.
free beer? Posted Aug 2, 2004 4:08 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] *And* you told them about Coopers. Did Novell really get hold of some inOregon? Enough to go around?
free beer? Posted Aug 2, 2004 4:50 UTC (Mon) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Unfortunately, no. Or perhaps that's fortunate. Don't want them bleeding us dry and all. :-)
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