On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Anders F Björklund afb@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
There was some talk about an "Alternative Desktops" SIG for CentOS last year, but there wasn't enough interest or volunteers to form a group. Then we tried to narrow it down to just a "Xfce Desktop" group, but in the end that came down to "so just use EPEL". But maybe a spin is a nice focal point, then the packaging can continue in EPEL and the CentOS Xfce SIG can just offer a special ISO with the epel-release and @xfce-desktop already added to it.
Mind you, there are some of us in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/SL worlds who stopped playing this game a while back, chucked out all the complex integrated desktop environments, run a bog-standard and simple twm or vtwm on a local X server, and call applications locally or remotely. This completely sidesteps the increasingly complex, interwoven, and thus fragile"paradigm shifts" and the needs for re-education, recompilation, and poor backwards integration of every major Gnome and KDE release.
It's vastly lighter weight, it's much faster over a remote connection, and it's been bog stable for more than 20 years now in heavy weight administration for hundreds, even thousands of hosts by people like me.