<quote who="Sven Luther"> > But redhat is one of the big gnome developers, and gnome has included now > epiphany and not galeon, which is, as you well know, a political statement > and a choice in the lamentable galeon fork that happened last year.
Dude, neither choice was political in nature. Read the release team's module summary for a pretty good analysis of why both GNOME and Red Hat chose to make a commitment to - independently I might add - Epiphany as their default browser. Galeon was never dumped: GNOME has never shipped a browser, Red Hat has previously shipped Mozilla. Despite some disagreement with specific choices that the Epiphany team have made, it is the right choice. It has a stronger team, dedicated maintainers, continuing maintenance and QA work, stated usability goals, and commitment to the GNOME Desktop release schedule and goals. You described the fork as "lamentable", however, I would certainly not describe the results of the fork as such. Not by a long shot. We now have a maintainable browser, and a strong developer team, with a LOT of momentum. Right now, I still use Galeon. But it's becoming very clear that Epiphany is (faster|better|stabler|etc), and that at some stage, I should shift. Please don't spread gunk like this as if it is the truth. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "From my observation, when it comes to porting Linux to a particular device, a point doesn't appear to be necessary." - mpt
