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Re: Accepted tasksel 3.29 (source all) into unstable



On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 23:40 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:46:25PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote: 
> >         >    * Gnome only works on i386 and amd64, so default to xfce on other arches.
> >         >      Closes: #765839 Thanks, Adam Borowski for testing.
> >         
> >         Gnome only works on i386 and amd64?
> > 
> > GNOME works on all Linux architectures.
> 
> Compiles yes, works not really.
> 
> > GNOME *without hardware 3D* will probably have big trouble running
> > anywhere but on i386 and amd64.
> 
> This means it's useless for most developer and sysadmin work.
[...]

Did you read that correctly?   GNOME Shell *does* work on x86 systems
without 3D acceleration, and I don't think 'most' developers or
sysadmins run GUIs on non-x86 machines.

That's not to say that this isn't a real limitation.  It would certainly
be good to have GNOME fully working on all our architectures again, and
particularly MIPS laptop and desktop systems.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

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