Re: Is our name confusing people....

[Jamison Hope]

On Nov 17, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Germán Arias wrote:

> On mié, 2010-11-17 at 22:30 +0100, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> > I second that. Installation from source is a hurdle - but then again:
> > installing GNOME from source is not simpler. But who does this
> > nowadays? Everybody is using the package manager of the respective
> > distribution for that. So we need to make the distributions aware of
> > GNUstep IMHO. Excellent support for the distributions' package
> > maintainers is key here.
>
> Currently many distros have the latest packages of GNUstep: OpenSuse,
> Debian Squeeze, Fedora 14, Gentoo, Arch Linux, T2, OpenBSD, Frugalware
> linux. If these packages works or not is other thing.
>
> Of course there others big distros that don't offers GNUstep, like:
> Ubuntu, Mandriva and Slackware.

Ubuntu does offer GNUstep:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnustep&searchon=names&suite=maverick&section=all

I don't know how up-to-date it is, but it's there.

-Jamie

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