On Tue, 24 Sep, 2019 at 14:48:57 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:27:07 +0100 > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > If the availability of a particular desktop environment is a > > showstopper, then perhaps RHEL and CentOS are not the best choice for > > you. > > That may be, but in view of the fact that you can even get a version of CDE > that works (very well) on Centos 7 (https://github.com/dcantrell/cderpm if > you're interested), I find it difficult to believe that a widely used and > mature desktop like Mate will just disappear on a widely used and mature > Linux distribution like Centos. >
I'm not suggesting that it will. A few years ago, soon after the source code of CDE was released, I downloaded, compiled, and installed CDE in a CentOS 6 VM. Why? Because I could. But would I conduct any serious business in that environment? Of course not. And why is that? Because it receives no enterprise support. > And since I've been using Centos for everything for a lot of years I'm not in > a hurry to change to something else if I can avoid it. > > > Providing and maintaining > > alternative desktop environments over the (long) life cycle of CentOS 8 > > will require a sustained effort by volunteers over many years. > > If that isn't being organized by someone at this time, I would be frankly > surprised. It could well be that someone is organising it. On the other hand, it could be not. Either way, it will not be supported by RHEL and CentOS. What happens when a critical vulnerability is discovered in that software? Who will notify you of it? Who will fix it? At the time of writing, Mate in EPEL 7 is still at version 1.16. The upstream version is at 1.22. Have any critical vulnerabilities been fixed in the meantime? I have no idea. Do you? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
