Re: GNUstep on the rise!

[Travis Griggs]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 0:17, Chris Vetter wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:50:47 Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have to say that when I read this about DRM and Apple Intel 
> > machines:
> > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/01/0421248&from=rss
> > it made me realize even more so how important it is that GNUstep
> > continue to rise to the forefront such that it can be installed on top
> > of open source systems to avoid nasty DRM!!!
>
> That reminds me...
>
> A few days ago I read an article mentioning, among other things, 
> GNUstep and
> how 'cool' (my choice of words) it would be if/when/whether 'these 
> guys'
> (ie. the developers of GNUstep) would decide to put GNUstep on top of 
> their
> OWN operating system instead of 'screwing around with existing systems
> resulting in symlinks all over the place' (again, my choice of words) 
> and
> 'imagine GNUstep on a Mach based kernel.'
>
> My first thought was along a distribution based on (Open)Darwin. 
> However,
> with respect to the recent news about Darwin/OSX x86 and DRM, I guess 
> this
> would be a 'no go.'
>
> AFAIK, xMach is dead :-( So does anyone know how far Hurd is with 
> respect to
> usability?

A day or two ago, there was a /. post about a Desktop-BSD distro 
attempt. One of the comments that I totally agreed with was "why not 
have BSD+GNUStep distro". That would be really cool. I agree with other 
sentiments that GNUStep should remain platform agnostic. OTOH, it seems 
that for an OSS project to succeed, it has to have the 
killer-app/solution. And having a "live cd distro" would be a big 
boost.

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"It had better be a pretty good meeting, to be better than no meeting
at all" -- Boyd K Packer


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