On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 07:37:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > What I see as the most likely thing to lead to change is if/when > GnomeOS actually starts to exist. When you can't run Gnome without > systemd I'd expect to see a lot more Gentoo users running it. Then > again, if Gnome jumps the shark, maybe not.
Even GNOME 2 seems to depend on udev nowadays, specifically the gvfs and evdev code. And Google's Chromium pulls in udev... and dbus, and elf-utils, and libusb!!! This is not the Chrome-OS on their "Chrome-books", but the linux web-browser build. We all know how well the browser-as-an-OS idea worked for AOL/Netscape... !NOT. Note that a fork will have to be be "bug-compatable" to Redhat's version, just like DR-DOS had to be bug-compatable to MS-DOS, way back when. And what happens when that "compatability" requires not just systemd and dbus but pulseaudio and binary syslogs and whatever else the Redhat developers decree? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
