Worried about fitting it onto ONE CD???
I don't even know where to buy CDR's any more. They're right totally obsolete.
DVD. Its bigger, and you can still buy them.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostPfff, LXDE offers even less customization than XFCE. At least XFCE can save/load sessions properly. But both have nothing to search on true desktop machine, they are all incomplete trade-offs.
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Originally posted by anonymous View PostIf an ISO is CD sized, you can still burn it to DVD or USB. Just because it is 700MB or whatever does not force you to burn it to CD.
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Originally posted by bug! View PostThis news is BS..
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Makes sense. For users, gnome2 to xfce is natural, gnome2 to gnome3 a disaster.
Think of it. You are a regular user, say at the workplace, used to work with gnome2. You don't care about the desktop much, you just come and sit to work with a web browser and office suit (openoffice). Wheezy becomes stable and IT upgrades all machines from squeeze.
Which choice hurts users more when they go to work next day? Gnome3 or XFCE? Fitting the CD might be compelling enough, but there is a strong usability reason to switch from gnome2 to xfce.
Gnome developers (the few that remain) have already said they are not catering to the needs of former gnome2 users. For them, Gnome3 has nothing to do with gnome2 and are not targeting their former users (as silly as that sounds). It would have made much more sense to rename the project entirely to avoid confusion.
Thus, ignoring gnome3 idiocy, what is left for the IT deployer? You need to switch to the closest thing, that would be either xfce, mate or, baring the performance of running components from gnome3, cinnamon/nemo/mdm & friends.
For a distro which doesn't want to alienate its user base (unlike the remaining gnome devs), this was the logical choice.
This is one beauty of the free/open source ecosystem. When a core dev makes an absurd choice, the project forks and/or people switch to alternatives. Remember Xfree86? Or even libreoffice vs openoffice?. Distros are collection of packages for the convenience of users, that is why they switch default packages from time to time.
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This news is BS. This commit is not in wheeze, only in unstable. Also over the past days many gnome packages got reuploaded with better compression so gnome can fit on the CD.
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Originally posted by Lemonzest View PostYeah I'm peeved at this "GNOME IS DYING" stuff (would say bsd + gnome is doubly dead! but gnome no longer works on bsd due to all the new linux standards like devicekit etc)
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostYou are missing the point. This "Breaking News" was just another place to vent GNOME hatred. KDE is taking a beating right now and GNOME is fast moving on to a new OS era. Phoronix could write about this GNOME effort but another "GNOME is dying" headline suits better.
I wonder about when this will change.
Gnome lover myself, took all of about 30 mins to love gnome-shell (yes I said LOVE), running it on Mageia 2 x86_64 atm (Great distro)
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostLXDE by default doesn't come with enough to customize in the first place. The very little it offers has enough customization to make me happy, and openbox's rc.conf is pretty easy to modify, while being very powerful. This is why I like it though - it comes with the bare minimum, so I only add what I care to use.
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Originally posted by Lemonzest View Postwho boots from CD these days? I either personally boot from a DVD iso from usb stick, or boot.iso from usb stick and install from the net (most of the time release day there is fixes that get auto installed when you net install)
I wonder about when this will change.
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