Today's GNOME3 funny

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:12 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I was looking at gnome3.org today, and their FAQ says that "The traditional 
> GNOME 2 desktop will not disappear overnight, however: releases of GNOME 2 will 
> continue to be supported by distributions for years to come." so clearly they 
> don't imagine everyone will drop all their software and retrain all their users 
> overnight.
> 
> Ubuntu doesn't see to have that thought, either.
> 
> I was looking for a way to run fc15 in a VM, which worked in the alpha and 
> hasn't (for me) since. The FAQ says that's the case, no VM has a powerful enough 
> video emulation to handle the worthless eye candy. The Virtualbox people say 
> much the same, but their spin is that the video could do the job but GNOME 
> insisted on using some direct to hardware stuff they don't off. I freely admit I 
> didn't spend a lot of time deciding anything other than both of them imply the 
> fault is with the other.

I have F15 running in a VirtualBox VM under MacOS on my company laptop.
Gnome seems to be in "fall-back" mode as far as I can tell. I'm more of
a KDE user so I don't really know, but it is at least usable.

poc