From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.205]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DHdj3-0003JW-00 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:11:25 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 57so772101wri for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:10:54 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:x-mailer:reply-to:x-priority:message-id:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=NYl7LN6SBICOJ9Dx1hFktBE70xfVesCcKJPlxfeDj//1wr/TaNi+IfHCxk/TzK6ZZAorZwsAUfYscaxzvPX1B+LklKPhYMUJPfk8s0QFT+3bjwF5Zv7NGke0BIwnPEz1TkQfP+hHptL22dj85rFzXvUQAWnHcpdXYVwyNEKIUfk= Received: by 10.54.5.53 with SMTP id 53mr1524965wre; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from FARHAN ([12.207.20.204]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id d74sm1406422wra.2005.04.02.00.10.54; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:10:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 02:10:49 -0600 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <103395851.20050402021049@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: References: <20050402033428.GA27641@romuald.net.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Farhan Subject: Re[2]: Slackware is dropping Gnome X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Farhan , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 08:11:25 -0000 WHY WOULD THEY REMOVE GNOME? ITS ONE OF THE MOST USED DESKTOPS? 4/2/2005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, I maintain a mirror of slackware-current on my ftp server, and gnome has in fact been removed. I don't think they're joking folks. Equal causes can produce very unequal effects. Joseph C. Lininger jbahm@pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow said > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> Hmm, I suppose this could be an April fools joke, couldn't it? If it's >> not, then they certainly picked an interesting date to announce this. > > Actually, it was buried in with several other things dated 3/26/05, so I'd > say it's no joke. I guess when the next version of Slackware comes out, I > will be trying to download one of those other Gnome packages. Well, I > haven't gotten Gnopernicus to work in Slackware 10.1 anyway, but I haven't > really put much effort into it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCTjUDJ6dqn0mqPbARAt9qAJ9YPW2pYV3rHUYcyWCWCcr3zEoHqQCg8gM4 BuJPmk+HUGixG9XFkMXZK5E= =yVUL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup