Re: Debian desktop news
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 08:18 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:58:54 -0400
> > Stephen Allen <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >>>
> >>> GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made
> >>> some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to
> >>> GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME
> >>> 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much
> >>> about that.
> >>
> >> I've heard this said by other prior too.
> >
> > It doesn't 'really want' hardware acceleration, it *requires* it. I said
> > it because that's what the error message, as explained by the Gnome
> > website, said. The Gnome developers said they no longer felt the need to
> > support 'legacy' hardware, which is of course their absolute right.
>
> Fedora 17's GNOME Shell doesn't "require," "really want," or even want
> hardware acceleration. This [1] was the initial announcement. I have
> no idea though whether Wheezy's got this or not.
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-November/158976.html
I stopped reading at "There are probably bugs!", not really. However, it
seems bitty, just to run "Fedora" as a guest and not to run GNOME3 for
serious work.
Regards,
Ralf
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