[Discuss] GnomeOS

[tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)]

Mark Woodward wrote:
> They've announced "GnomeOS"

I presume their own Linux distribution? What is it derived from?


> Ubuntu is going to drop Gnome as the primary desktop, as is Debian...

What is Debian going with? Are they dropping GNOME entirely, or just
using one of the forks?


> Does this help or hurt Gnome? (Does it matter?)

It certainly can't help if all the most popular distributions abandon
GNOME 3.


> I reverted to "gnome classic"...

What, if any, issues have you ran into in getting the latest version of
applications to work? Do you need to track down non-standard packages
for your apps?

Have you tried Mate (2.0 fork) or Cinnamon (3.0 fork)?

 -Tom

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