[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome to become a Linux only project

[Bayard Bell]

I've read most of the thread, and I don't see anyone drifting that way.

Instead I see people saying that they aren't too worried about kFreeBSD because it's a "toy" OS and then some varying degrees of sectarianism and ecumenism about Linux distros. What I took away from it was that there are a handful of developers who have some very strong views favouring Linux specificity but that almost anyone identifying themselves as members of the GNOME foundation or with a gnome.org address has the desire to limit focus to a single platform and rather think that the project's social skills need improvement. It's probably not coincidental that the thread fires up around systemd integration and that it's RH people associated with systemd development appear a majority of the handful given to categorical assertions about the wisdom of narrowed platform specificity.

On 19 May 2011, at 23:08, Gary wrote:

> Perhaps it would help if I read more of the actual email thread but
> what I read quoted on Phoronix left me with a different impression.
> What I understood is that the author is suggesting they create a GNOME
> centric OS based around the Linux kernel. It could seem then that
> their current efforts to keep it OS independent _may_ be left behind
> as a result but that's still assuming all their devs agree that's a
> sound choice going forward. Who's crazy enough to start a new OS
> distro these days? ;)
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