On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 09:44 -0500, Chris Gorman via blfs-support wrote: > Hello All, > > I wanted to ask a possibly silly question. (Since there is an entire > section of the BLFS book dedicated to this.) I have read on the > internet that gnome requires systemd. I have a sysvinit machine and > wanted to make sure I could run the desktop before spending the time > building it. So is it possible to run gnome from a sysvinit machine? > > Thanks in advance. > Got the same question and the solution I took was to select MATE, a gnome fork (http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases), was easy to integrate with BLFS described components.
MATE is gnome2 fork (which IMHO) give you a lot better flexibility to customize your desktop than gnome3. -- You have seen "Linux from scratch" and looking for ISO files www.osukiss.org -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
