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   Renn Kane (dolfsquare@tooting.intensifi.es)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:17:13 JST Renn Kane

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   "Perberos, an Argentine user of Arch Linux, started the MATE project to fork and continue GNOME 2 in response to the negative reception of GNOME 3, which had replaced its traditional taskbar (GNOME Panel) with GNOME Shell." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(desktop_environment)ç

   OF COURSE it was an Arch user

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     Renn Kane (dolfsquare@tooting.intensifi.es)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:17:14 JST Renn Kane

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     This is almost the story behind MATE btw (no I'm not exaggerating)

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     Renn Kane (dolfsquare@tooting.intensifi.es)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:17:16 JST Renn Kane

     Free software enjoyer of the day is people who are still using the 2012 branch fork of a piece of software. The fork keeps backporting security updates but it branched off because the upstream made the switch from SMIRL 2.1 to SMIRL 2.2 and they can't stand it, because it's not retrocompatible with some 1982 IBM mouses.

     (btw SMIL is obviously a recursive retroacronym that stands for "SMIL Is A Random Library")