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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:57:22 +0100
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Re: Desktop Cinnamon
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On 13/12/12 14:32, Larry Linder wrote:
> Has anyone tried to use Cinnamon desktop onto SL.   The Desktops on 6.X were 
> unusable from our vantage point and that is why we stalled at 5.8.
> 
> From some others I have talked to have tried it and found that they love it 
> and they indicated that were running Fedora.

Cinnamon requires GNOME 3.  It's basically just a GNOME Shell
replacement in GNOME 3.  So to run Cinnamon on EL6, you need to bring
over the complete GNOME 3 stack as well.

I know Cinnamon is available in Fedora 17.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth

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