Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-26 Thread Brian Cameron
Andy: On 05/26/11 04:51, Andy Wingo wrote: You just used the name Richard Stallman as a token for this argument is invalid. You then proceeded to call someone stalinist; was it Richard? Was it GNOME OS proponents? Unclear. This was a poor attempt at humor, I guess. With my words I was

[question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Frederic Peters
Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based or not on the Linux kernel). What are your thougths on this?[2]

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Lionel Dricot
Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters a écrit : Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Andrea Veri
2011/5/25 Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org: What are your thougths on this?[2] Do you think this is a foundation job to answer those questions? If not, is this a responsibility of the release team? Or something that is best left unanswered, as pieces are put into positions by different

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hello Frederic :) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based or not on the

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Stallman
I really think the GNOME OS idea is a very good one, that is, making GNOME provide access to configuration and features of the underlying OS, so that it is a complete desktop that can deal with everything the users would ever need from a desktop. The idea is fine, but calling it

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/25/2011 02:24 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based or not on the