GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

[Reindl Harald]

Am 29.08.2011 20:23, schrieb Chris Kloiber:
> On 08/29/2011 12:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 08/29/2011 09:32 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 15:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Note that GNOME 2.x won't get any security updates which might be
>>>> something you need to keep in mind.   This is part of the reason that
>>>> Fedora along with other distros will have to move to follow GNOME 3.x
>>>> releases.
>>> One wonders how this will impact on the various long life distributions,
>>> where you're expected to keep using Linux version x(not changing).y(not
>>> changing).z(only part that changes), then?  Because they're supposed to
>>> run for years, *with* security updates, but no large version changes.
>> Those distros all have maintainers who will backport fixes.
>> Commercial enterprise distros don't depend on upstream maintainers.
>> That's part of the value of paying them.
>>
>> Rahul
> There is nothing to backport, as those changes are taken from upstream, 
> which no longer exists.

maybe fedora should switch to KDE as primary desktop since
GNOME2 was bad enough and GNOME3 is losing even users who
loved GNOME2 for whatever reason

a desktop which NEEDS 3D-Support is a epic fail

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