Re: RH Gnome Sucks ?

[Daniel Lyddy <daniell cs berkeley edu>]

Paul Warren wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:41:02PM -0500, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:46:41 +0100 you wrote:
> >
> >  > In today's LWN Miguel is quoted as having said that: If you are thinking
> >  > that GNOME sucks, however, it's probably "because you are using Red Hat's
> >  > version."
> >  >
> >  > I just can't believe the Gnome leader is bashing a company that has always
> >  > been so supportive of this project (not only for including Gnome as their
> >  > primary desktop but also by producing lots of code for the project).
> >
> > I'm guessing that he meant a version which was distributed
> > with Red Hat (i.e. an old one).
> 
> Yeah, that's what I took it to mean.  Quite a common thread of
> conversation, on this list and others:
> 
> "Hey Gnome sux"
> "What version you using?"
> "Whatever comes with RH 6"
> "Ah.  Upgrade..."
> 
> IIRC, RH released 6.0 (or was it 6.1) just before October Gnome, which
> was by any measure a massive improvement on what was being shipped with
> RH.

So Miguel was quoted out of context then.  What he probably (or should
have) said was: "If you think Gnome sucks, you were probably using the
version we provided with RH 6.0.  Right after RH 6.0 was released, we
made massive improvements to Gnome.  Looking back, maybe we should have
waited until those improvements were finished before rolling Gnome out
with the most popular Linux distribution."

Not knowing any more about the article and the interviewer, I would
guess off the top of my head that this is just another case of the media
trying to whip up a controversy where there really is none.  Conflict
sells, almost as much as sex.

Or, if you're a conspiracy theorist, maybe the interviewer does a lot of
side jobs for MSnbc.

Dan
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