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

[Ian Johnson]

This is definitely something we should keep an eye on, but I think some of
the worry is premature. The reaction to McCann's post from other GNOME
contributors seems to be overwhelmingly negative.

Something else I noticed, and consider very intriguing, is that Brian
Cameron chimed in, speaking for Oracle, with some encouraging words. I
assumed Oracle had anything desktop-related on the back burner, and
certainly wouldn't have expected them to step into this fray. Considering
the Solaris 10 history, I would not have been surprised to see Oracle stop
at GNOME 2.30 and drag it on as the "Oracle Solaris" desktop for five or six
years; if Oracle employees are weighing in, in an official capacity,
reaffirming the existing Sun investments in the project, I feel less
threatened by the comments of Linux heads like McCann.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

> On Friday, May 20, 2011 01:14 PM, Allan E. Registos wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 20 May, 2011 07:08 AM, Bayard Bell wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> This rumor will become true when according to this article:
>>
>> http://www.osnews.com/story/24762/GNOME_Discusses_Becoming_a_Linux-only_Project
>>
>>
>> The fact of the matter is this, however: if systemd becomes an
>> external dependency for GNOME-Shell, this is effectively what is
>> happening anyway. GNOME-Shell requires systemd which requires Linux.
>> For all intents and purposes, it would turn GNOME into a Linux-only
>> project.
>>
>>
> Someone says it's not the whole of systemd but dbus...
>
>
>
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