[ale] DRAT! - Ubuntu 11.04 end of life

[Jay Lozier]

On 11/03/2012 08:44 AM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 11:48 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
>> I've been running Cinnamon for quite a while now, both at home and at
>> work.  I use this PPA to install Cinnamon:
>> https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable
>>
>> (The PPA is maintained by one of the Cinnamon devs, so I fairly well
>> trust it...)
>
> Trust is relative...
>
> Are these forks going to last?
Cinnamon and Mate are part of Mint so the issue with them is how long 
does Mint survive. Cinnamon is the default DE for Mint so I think it 
will be supported.
>
> Are they going to remain stable in the sense that they stay very much 
> like GNOME's 2.x series?
>
> Are they going to be well-supported?
>
> I'll stick with GNOME 3, I think.  There are a lot of people behind 
> it, it is improving all the time, and the GNOME Shell's extension 
> mechanism, combined with the relative ease of writing plugins for it, 
> makes it a (IMHO) superb environment. Particularly with multiple heads.
>
>     --- Mike
>


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