GNOME 2 on Fedora 15

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:28:25 -0500 Reindl Harald
<h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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

I guess the developers will decide in their wisdom. If it were up to
me, I think it would make more sense to get something that has good
functionality and is light on resources. Perhaps XFCE?

I use LXDE, but I don't know if it could be considered to have
functionality.

Ranjan