
During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution,
called for a common vision inside the project, an area in which the project as a whole is currently lacking. Only a few hours later Red Hat developers Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark presented their own proposal for a reinvention of the Open Source desktop:
The GNOME Online Desktop.
My take: As I have
been saying for a long time, GNOME needs a vision (and leaders) for the future. I'm glad that people are finally stepping up.
Member since:
2006-04-10
Bin playing with Linux for years and gave up Microsoft for SuSE three years ago.
Ended up running mostly Ubuntu on my machines.
Bought a Mac Mini out of curiosity a month ago to see what all the fuss was about.
Now I know. What a pleasure! And plenty of excellent free stuff or cheap shareware if you know where to look for it.
And you're quite right.
But unfortunately I don't think it'll ever happen. Too many people running in different directions.
So it goes...