From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:15:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050402131516.GA9263@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504012259420.11081@merlin.pcdesk.net>
Hi.
Although the sighted community will be missing what seems to be a good
desktop, I don't think the blind community is missing much by not having
Gnome.
Kenny
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:00:29PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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> 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.
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> Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
> Joseph C. Lininger
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> And so it came to pass that on Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow said
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> >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.
> >
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` Kenny Hitt
` jim grimsby
` hank smith
` Kenny Hitt
` jim grimsby
` Adam Myrow
` Kenny Hitt
` Gregory Nowak
` Janina Sajka
` Kenny Hitt
` Steve Holmes
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` Trevor Astrope
` Steve Holmes
` Kenny Hitt
` Steve Holmes
` Igor Gueths
` Sean McMahon
` Kenny Hitt
` Lorenzo Taylor
` Justin Ekis
` Lorenzo Taylor
` jim grimsby
` Lorenzo Taylor
` Lorenzo Taylor
` jim grimsby
` Gregory Nowak
` Laura Eaves
` Ned
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` Kenny Hitt
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