Time to make it official! I want to turn #GNOME
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Time to make it official! I want to turn #GNOME OS, GNOME's home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a real production-ready general purpose OS. I finally blogged about it: https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/
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@AdrianVovk
> give the Foundation an objective framework under which to categorize and promote all distributions that ship the GNOME desktopWould thi be kind of like, "this distro ships extensions -> dont recommend"?
Also I guess this wouldn't be about GNOME OS, right? -
@lw64 I've been asked to not share details publicly to avoid accidental miscommunication to distros. I've got a conflict-of-interest, so until the Foundation green lights my ideas I'll keep them to myself. Hope that's understandable.
The main point is that we're aware of the possibile discomfort a GNOME OS may bring to distros and are looking for ways to deal with that. Once there's a plan that the Foundation deems good enough to share with distros for feedback, I'm sure it will.
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@AdrianVovk I see, I am optimistic that a good solution can be found. Currently there is even a framework like that already in use, its just nowhere written down I guess. For example ubuntu is not mentioned in the "how to get gnome" section. So it wouldnt change a lot.
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@AdrianVovk Though announcing GNOME OS as a new OS for normal users and promoting it as the first recommendation would obviously be a change. I can see Fedora or OpenSuse having negative opinions about that. But in the end they cannot really do anything (or have the power to say anything), especially once funding for (long term) maintainance for GNOME OS will be secured. (Through an STF-like thing maybe) And I think that will be necessary.
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@lw64 @AdrianVovk How comes OpenSuse could have negative opinions? Their main DE even seems to be KDE, and they have plenty of other good arguments speaking for them (like native grub-btrfs snapshots and YaST2).
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@Natanox @AdrianVovk actually I was wrong, I remembered some time ago, only a few distros were advertised in the "get gnome" page, but now there is every major one, even ubuntu. From that point I would have thought it would impact opensuse negatively, because now people wouldnt install it anymore to get gnome, but GNOME OS.
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@lw64 @AdrianVovk I see. Well, even if it wasn't done properly I'd still argue that OpenSuse offers quite a few things making it unique.
