Re: GNUstep on Hackernews

[Gregory Casamento]

Liam,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 8:58 AM Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:

This discussion contains some useful points. There may be stuff here
that should be addressed right on the homepage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537172

Étoilé is there too. I wonder if this is because I mentioned both in my article?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537538

As I have said more than once before, IMHO, the GNUstep project
*really* _NEEDS_ a version of a mainstream distro based on the desktop
environment, as a showcase.

There has been, for a while, the idea of creating a "reference" distribution.

 

NEXTspace hasn't released any binaries or an ISO yet as far as I know.
It needs that. Ordinary Linux users are not going to compile their
own.

The HelloSystem evaluated it and discarded it, and the GNUstep project
missed a _huge_ opportunity there. That made me very sad.

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

It is interesting that they apparently never bothered to speak to a SINGLE SOUL on this project about their interest.

Hello is getting some attention. I managed to get a recent build to
boot on hardware on one of my machines recently for the first time (I
tried 0.5 & 0.6 with no success except in a VM) and while it's still
very basic, it is there, it works, you can use it, and people are
trying it.


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