GNOME In Australia, France, India And Malaysia

Anonymous BillyGoat writes "According to the recently released GNOME summary, a number of number of country specific lists have come up for GNOME advocacy/development/marketing. Countries represented include Australia, France, India and Malaysia.
These lists are a part of the newly created GNOME Marketing project."

Is Gnome the commercial alternative to desktop?

[FedeTXF]

So every company aiming to sell linux desktop solutions will use gnome to avoid paying the qt developers for the license?
You can't sell a program binded to qt without paying?
What propietary software in novell and others trying to insert in their linux desktops?

You can't have it both ways

[dreamchaser]

Either you want Linux to become mainstream and widely adopted, or you don't. You can't have it both ways. If it is to become a serious presence on the desktop, companies are bound to add proprietary elements to their personal flavors/distributions. That doesn't stop you from using Linux.

It is exactly this 'well if it isn't 100% free I don't want it involved with Linux' mentality that is keeping Linux from the prime time.

Re:Not so comfortable

[stefanlasiewski]

Why is GNOME so populated with marketing types?

You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure.

Compare and contrast to linux kernel development where Linus *the star of the linux world* actively shuns the spotlight.

That's not an accurate comparison. Linux is hyped up the wazoo by other organizations, IBM pushes 'Linux' during primetime television ads. Gnome has no such marketing.

In the GNOME community you have everyone racing to the cameras.

There aren't any cameras to run to. Gnome barely gets any coverage outside of a few geek magazine articles and websites. Most people don't know that it exists.

Re:Not so comfortable

[trouser]

You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure

What is the criteria for success/failure with a non-commercial product? Certainly not number of units sold. The Gnome developers set about creating a desktop environment which presumably was intended to satisfy certain design criteria. If those criteria are met then the project is a success. If people don't use it it may be disappointing but it's hardly a failure.

And I use it everyday and it's t

Re:Not so comfortable

[Sri Ramkrishna]

The goal is to have free software replace proprietary software. Desktop software is one of the biggest drivers to get ordinary people to move to a Free Software OS. Having more people means we get drivers, more developers and better satisfaction that we are making software for all.

sri

Re:Not so comfortable

[stefanlasiewski]

I disagree. Gnome isn't some pointless academic exercise with no end purpose.

The Gnome developers created Gnome so that people use Gnome. If people don't use Gnome, then what's the point in creating it?

I agree that the design criteria are also a goal for developers, but that's because we want a well designed product. If the product is well designed, then more people will use it.

If you want people to use Gnome, then you need to market the product. Even "word of mouth" is a kind of marketing. No shame in t

personally

[ShadowRage]

with as much gnome bias that floats around opensource and linux, it's like considering microsoft windows as the perfect alternative to microsoft windows.
in my experience.. gnome has often been slow and bloated (exactly what gnome followers claim about everything else) but the fact remains that, with running just the basics, it eats more ram than kde with add-ons. people like gnome because it doesnt use QT and it's "more free" than kde... (where kde runs up the buck unlike gnome.)

hell, you can create a perf

Speed of Gnome

[oo_waratah]

I have run Linux gnome on equivalent hardware to Windows and always found gnome faster than Windows. Also the recent improvements made to Gnome has improved speed and ease of use somewhat.