Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Jul 2005 16:59 UTC
Debian and its clones "I invite everyone interested to join the Utnubu Team. Utnubu stands for doing what Ubuntu does, just the other way around: We want to take the things Ubuntu does and that are missing in Debian, and - where appliciable - put them in Debian."
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stop to GNOME imposition
by on Mon 25th Jul 2005 17:52 UTC

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How comes the Linux Standard Base Project has declared GNOME as Standard Desktop for Linux ?


http://www.linuxbase.org/LSBWiki/DesktopWG

RE: stop to GNOME imposition
by on Mon 25th Jul 2005 17:59 in reply to "stop to GNOME imposition"
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Simple, is has "no strings atached" for commecrial use. not like KDE with Qt.

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RE[2]: stop to GNOME imposition
by on Mon 25th Jul 2005 21:04 in reply to "RE: stop to GNOME imposition"
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>Simple, is has "no strings atached" for commecrial use. not like KDE with Qt.

I love this Gnome is more friendly to closed source development. Isn't that what we should be avoiding???? KDE uses Qt with is GPL. Pure freedom there, not the LGPL which allows closed source apps to pollute our system. It is a sad day that the Gnome people boast that being able to make closed source apps is a benefit.

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RE: stop to GNOME imposition
by raboof on Mon 25th Jul 2005 18:08 in reply to "stop to GNOME imposition"
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2005-07-24

Quoting the page you linked to:

Step 2: Analyze each library using LSB criteria (http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/criteria/index.html). Certain candidates like openssl, libqt are dropped

Note that all that is work in progress, not at all the final word on the matter.

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RE[2]: stop to GNOME imposition
by raboof on Mon 25th Jul 2005 18:12 in reply to "RE: stop to GNOME imposition"
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2005-07-24

Sorry to be replying to my own post, but this is relevant: the LSB explanation of why libQT doesn't meet the criteria: http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/ideas/issues/libqt/

(of course this is all off-topic, but nonetheless interesting)

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