Underlying DE for the Workstation product

Florian Müllner fmuellner at gnome.org
Tue Feb 4 08:07:08 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Alexander GS <alxgrtnstrngl at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you look at www.ohloh.com below  MATE is a "very active" project with
> over 2 million lines of code, 64 contributors and the last commit was
> made 4 days ago.  GNOME 2 is alive and thriving and evolving with a
> large user-base among the top distributions Arch Linux, Linux Mint,
> Debian, Ubuntu 14.04, OpenSUSE and many others including Fedora. Compare
> this to GNOME Shell which has only around 81K lines of code, twice as
> many contributors at 157 and the last commit was 2 days ago.
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=mate+desktop
> http://www.ohloh.net/p?query=gnome+shell&sort=relevance

How about comparing 'caja' to all of KDE? GNOME is more than GNOME
Shell, and MATE forked more than just the parts GNOME Shell is
replacing ...


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