Re: RadioActive 1.0 "Fly me to the GNOME"

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

jacob helixcode com (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman) writes:

> Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu> writes:
> 
> > > It fixes the rough edges of 0.11, and introduces several user interface
> > > enhancements, most of them inspired by Stanislav Brabec <utx penguin cz>.
> > > As you can guess from the code name, this is the release I intend
> > > GNOME-Extras 1.4 to include.
> > > 
> > > RadioActive requires a Video4Linux-enabled kernel. This appeared
> > 
> > 
> > I would have to say that I'm opposed to including this in any "official"
> > way as a part of GNOME.  This application is Linux specific, while GNOME
> > runs on just about any *nix platform.  If we include applications like
> > this, we're endorsing Linux as our platform of choice.
> 
> There are quite a few linux only things in GNOME.  floppy-buddy
> (gfloppy), mem-buddy (memprof), stuff in gmc, etc.  I think there is
> some other stuff too.

Just for the record, gfloppy works on any Unix with mtools installed (of
which I know at least FreeBSD is one.)

-Jonathan