What exactly is the good reason behind the desire of wanting to throw
out GNOME 3?
GNOME 3 was publicly received badly when it was released, primarily due
to the instability, and the whole tablet interface on a desktop
operating system fiasco.
I have been reading reviews of GNOME 3, and a lot of desktop users
report they experience an increased productivity rate once they figure
out all the bits of GNOME 3, leaving the classic task bar start menu
behind in a grey memory.
I myself never got into GNOME 3. I never took the time to properly learn
it, but it just raises a few questions as to why Debian would stick to
GNOME 3, for gNewSense to throw this out. I use gNewSense to have a free
Debian, and if gNewSense decides to do major overhauls like this, I
would no longer be having a free Debian out of the box.
However, I am looking forward to try GNOME 3 with gNewSense 4 once it is
done and thoroughly get to know if before I would really shape an
opinion of my own.
I would like for gNewSense to remain as much of a default Debian as
possible regarding the out of the box experience, minus the proprietary
bits of course. I would not enjoy it either if gNewSense fades away from
the stable repository by including recent / edgy software replacements,
like resorting to, or adding, a recent MATE version, not offered by the
Debian base.
If I wanted edge I would be using Parabola GNU/Linux.
On 26/03/2014 22:19, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
Op Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:42:37 +0100
schreef HacKurx <hack...@gmail.com>:
It is very easy to make this, with this base :
http://docs.kali.org/live-build/generate-updated-kali-iso
http://docs.kali.org/live-build/customize-the-kali-desktop-environment
Adding a repo to sources.list will probably get it working, but
gNewSense should be self-hosting and complete [1]. So the steps to
include MATE or any other software are:
- verify if software is free
- verify how committed upstream is to software freedom
- check if it builds with the tools in our release and patch if
necessary
- check if it integrates with the software in our release and patch if
necessary
- add/replace branding
- package, build and test
- keep track of (security) updates
- update and translate our documentation if necessary
- support users on IRC and mailing list
- update our Live configuration if appropriate
- generate and test alternate Live images if appropriate
[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
[2] http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/board:manifesto
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