On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:28:25 -0500 Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
Am 29.08.2011 20:23, schrieb Chris Kloiber:
> On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be
>>>> something you need to keep in mind. This is part of the reason that
>>>> Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x
>>>> releases.
>>> One wonders how this will impact on the various long life distributions,
>>> where you're expected to keep using Linux version x(not changing).y(not
>>> changing).z(only part that changes), then? Because they're supposed to
>>> run for years, *with* security updates, but no large version changes.
>> Those distros all have maintainers who will backport fixes.
>> Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream maintainers.
>> That's part of the value of paying them.
>>
>> Rahul
> There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream,
> which no longer exists.
maybe fedora should switch to KDE as primary desktop since
GNOME2 was bad enough and GNOME3 is losing even users who
loved GNOME2 for whatever reason
a desktop which NEEDS 3D-Support is a epic fail
I guess the developers will decide in their wisdom. If it were up to
me, I think it would make more sense to get something that has good
functionality and is light on resources. Perhaps XFCE?
I use LXDE, but I don't know if it could be considered to have
functionality.
Ranjan