Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 31 Mar 2009, at 16:18, Owen Taylor wrote:

> What isn't going to be able to run GNOME Shell is really old
> hardware ... if you have a Rage128, GNOME Shell isn't going to happen.
> But when we are talking legacy hardware of that age, I think a special
> purpose environment makes sense. Whether it's XFCE, or metacity +
> gnome-panel, or something else.

I guess the other category here is the current generation of thin  
clients... not 'legacy hardware' by any means, they just aren't really  
designed for this sort of thing.  Yet many people want to (and do) run  
current versions of GNOME on Sun Rays, for example, and I'd expect  
those numbers to ramp up once OpenSolaris (or some branch of it that  
Sun blesses with long-term support) is officially supported by Sun Ray  
servers.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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