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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 07:37:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> What I see as the most likely thing to lead to change is if/when |
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> GnomeOS actually starts to exist. When you can't run Gnome without |
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> systemd I'd expect to see a lot more Gentoo users running it. Then |
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> again, if Gnome jumps the shark, maybe not. |
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Even GNOME 2 seems to depend on udev nowadays, specifically the gvfs |
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and evdev code. |
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And Google's Chromium pulls in udev... and dbus, and elf-utils, and |
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libusb!!! This is not the Chrome-OS on their "Chrome-books", but the |
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linux web-browser build. We all know how well the browser-as-an-OS idea |
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worked for AOL/Netscape... !NOT. |
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Note that a fork will have to be be "bug-compatable" to Redhat's |
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version, just like DR-DOS had to be bug-compatable to MS-DOS, way back |
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when. And what happens when that "compatability" requires not just |
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systemd and dbus but pulseaudio and binary syslogs and whatever else the |
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Redhat developers decree? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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