GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 16:20 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode by paulj
Parent article: GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Possible, but... who on earth uses RHEL on a desktop? Maybe it happens, but server-side usage is far more common (that's surely what the paying customers are paying for, right?)

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RHEL on the desktop

Posted Nov 10, 2012 17:53 UTC (Sat) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]

"who on earth uses RHEL on a desktop?"

One example: my university has a licensing agreement to mediate distribution and support of RHEL on all (so far as I know) campus machines, including individual desktops. So individual labs and individual desktop users have some incentive to use RHEL. I personally don't think RHEL is a good choice for my lab machines, so I don't use it. But I can certainly understand why other labs do.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 18:31 UTC (Sat) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't know about RedHat specifically, but I can take a guess extrapolating from the kinds of "desktop" customers Sun had. Not desktops in the ordinary joe sense, but desktops in the "platform to deliver a limited set of applications reliably/consistently" sense. Think stock-brokers / trading workstations, banking, etc, where for whatever reason a desktop interface is still preferable to a custom, restricted "kiosk" interface.

GNOME 3.8 to drop fallback mode

Posted Nov 10, 2012 22:04 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

> where for whatever reason a desktop interface is still preferable to a custom, restricted "kiosk" interface.

every kiosk interface needs to be built on top of some desktop interface, try it sometime.