GNOME3 and openSUSE 12.1 – A conspiracy theory!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 23, 2011

“On the last GNOME Team meeting there was a small topic to check
if it would be interesting to have a GNOME2 spin for the upcoming
12.1 release of openSUSE. It was decided not to provide a GNOME2
spin and somehow this suggests that GNOME2 is dead for openSUSE
(unless someone takes the job in).

“One of the interesting things that poped during this meeting
was the fact that GNOME3 has a ‘fallback mode’, or at least that’s
how it became to be known among GNOME users, press and competitors.
It’s not really hard to understand that ‘fallback’ became a
connotative form that throws in a lot of negative energy, much in
the way that it seems to be an unwanted ‘feature’.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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