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It's worth noting that cinnamon is an incompatible fork of gnome shell: they don't upstream their changes, it requires mint to run, patch sets at least for fedo
by trotsky 14y ago
It's worth noting that cinnamon is an incompatible fork of gnome shell: they don't upstream their changes, it requires mint to run, patch sets at least for fedora are not fully functional, they don't appear to be interested in a multi-distro source base.
Better than unity/cannonical by far, but not nearly as good as gnome/redhat for the community. Consider that cinnamon wouldn't be possible without the efforts of the gnome 3 team in targeting the whole community.
- shared4you 14y agoI'm guessing, but probably the GNOME upstream don't want Cinnamon's patches?
- vacri 14y agoIt doesn't require Mint to run - I'm posting this comment from Cinnamon running on Debian Unstable. Cinnamon is also in the ubuntu 12.10 repos.
- trotsky 14y agoThey need to carry distro specific patches though, that was my point. This also leads to most plugins not working without modification, at least on fedora.