On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:58:54 -0400 > Stephen Allen <marathon.duran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >>> >>> GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made >>> some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to >>> GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME >>> 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much >>> about that. >> >> I've heard this said by other prior too. > > It doesn't 'really want' hardware acceleration, it *requires* it. I said > it because that's what the error message, as explained by the Gnome > website, said. The Gnome developers said they no longer felt the need to > support 'legacy' hardware, which is of course their absolute right.
Fedora 17's GNOME Shell doesn't "require," "really want," or even want hardware acceleration. This [1] was the initial announcement. I have no idea though whether Wheezy's got this or not. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/158976.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swpnfhbhw9wdesh3pjv_c3xyfszz7an5lbsqqejdux...@mail.gmail.com
