On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Le samedi 08 septembre 2012, à 11:53 -0700, Michael Dinon a écrit : >> Hi All, >> >> I am running GNOME on Fedora right now as I have recently become a big >> fan of the GNOME desktop. I am curious at giving GNOME a go with >> openSUSE. What would you say are the best reasons to use GNOME with >> openSUSE? Also it looks like from what I read the openSUSE GNOME team >> plans to have a repo for 12.2 users to upgrade to 3.6, does the team >> try to do that for all GNOME releases that fall outside of the >> openSUSE release schedule? > > Haven't replied to this earlier, sorry. > > I would say the advantages of openSUSE compared to Fedora is that we > have a system that is usually more stable (in the development version, > at least -- I hear rawhide is pretty wild) and that we nearly always > backport new versions of GNOME to the latest stable version of openSUSE, > which is pretty cool. > > If you only compare the GNOME integration: both Fedora and openSUSE are > using a nearly-vanilla GNOME, so there's no big difference there. > > That being said, Fedora is a nice distro too :-) (I love that they're > pushing the latest technologies, for instance -- that is part of what > explains some of the rawhide issues) > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] >
Thank you for the reply. Back-porting major Gnome releases to the stable release when those release cycles don't match up is very exciting. Right now after bumping around different DE's I am finding Gnome to be the most exciting for me so getting the newest Gnome quickly is a key selling point. I don't use Rawhide, but I take it from your comment that Factory is more stable. Has newer Gnome releases in openSUSE typically been back-ported to stable quicker than being made available in Tumbleweed? As for vanilla Gnome I know in the past openSUSE would ship with the Slab menu and custom themes like sonar. Do you see the Gnome packagers for openSUSE sticking with vanilla/upstream or are there any plans to put a openSUSE-specific theme or customization on the desktop? -- Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
