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Status Update for Gnome3 on OpenBSD

posted by LaminatorX on Friday February 21 2014, @03:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gnomes-for-Theo dept.

joekiser writes:

"Antoine Jacoutot has given a status update for GNOME users of OpenBSD, including a short video. The GNOME release has been updated to 3.10.2, and auto-mounting of devices is now supported through a new helper program, toad. Now is a great time for desktop users to test the upcoming OpenBSD release. The ports tree was recently locked for stability testing ahead of the 5.5 release, meaning that recent -CURRENT builds are very close to what will be released in May. Antoine also addresses the upcoming issues non-Linux systems face with GNOME, such as the upcoming hard dependency on systemd."

[ED Note: I ran an OpenBSD router box years ago when tinkering about with an old PII with four NICs seemed worthwhile. The OS lived up to it's rep, but it never occurred to me to use it for a desktop system. Are any Soylentils using OpenBSD for a GNOME-based workstation?]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by efitton on Friday February 21 2014, @11:58AM

    by efitton (1077) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:58AM (#4382) Homepage

    The GNOME team did not have "classic" mode for years until Mate and Cinnamon ate their lunch. My understanding is that "classic" is not fully functional or compatible compared to GNOME 2. For example, they moved the clock back to the default spot of GNOME 2 but did NOT allow users to move the clock. They missed the point with classic.

    I think there is a huge difference between stagnation and wholesale changes. I also think GNOME did themselves no favors by keeping the name. They went from a proven full featured desktop to an experimental desktop but did kept the same name. Changing the direction of a project while keeping the name and expecting the same treatment, including being the default DE shipped by distributions, will certainly bring resentment.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2014, @03:24AM (#5109)

    I don't think Classic was about MATE or Cinnamon. I think it was something that Red Hat's customers demanded. Red Hat compelled Gnome to develop a Classic desktop lest they lose business.