Hola Juanjo, On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Juanjo Marín <juanjomari...@yahoo.es> wrote: > Germán Poó has some old virtual machines. Maybe it would be good idea to > offer a virtual machine to try it. He has GNOME 1.0.56, 1.2 and 1.4. They are > based in Red Hat. Version 1.0.56 (qemu image) and 1.2 (linux 2.2, vmdk) are > tricky to run. Version 1.4 (linux 2.4, vmdk) is easy to run, so I think is > perfect for us. The user is gnome, password gnomehistory (same for root). If > people like the idea, we can prepare other VMs of the other GNOME versions > based on different distros. I think if we do this, we should use the OVF/OVA > format. >
If this is doable, great. But I fear that we will not be able to get the tricky ones on time. A funny thing to do would be to make this images available in GNOME FTP. As a "geeky toy" for people who want to try them. But even then, I would not go further back than 1.4. > As a side note, reading an old interview to Miguel de Icaza in GNOME 1.X > days, I really like this reply: > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/04/03/2344211/miguel-de-icaza-tells-all > > "I understand that for a seasoned Unix user GNOME might not bring a new > paradigm for their way they work, but you have to think differently. > You have to think how many people have or will be able to run free > software on their desktops because it is easier to use. > We do plan on continuing improving GNOME, and catering to the needs of > the people who are just starting to use computers and just starting to > use GNU/Linux." > This is a great quote. Perhaps we can chase Miguel to update it. Action items? I can contact Chema and the GUADEC team about the history of GNOME video. Would you like to start writing the memories for each release? Like I said, I would only do a few releases, not all. See my previous proposal. Andreas perhaps might want to chime on what would be cool to gather for the design: screenshots? old icons? the video? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
