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Re: Desktop Cinnamon
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:35:46 -0700
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On 13 December 2012 06:32, Larry Linder <[log in to unmask]> 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.

Well without a definition of what "unusable" is.. then I would not see
how Cinnamon would help any. It is a fork of GNOME-3 to make it act
and look like GNOME-2 which the 6.x systems ship with. So not sure
what kind of "win" you would expect.

> From some others I have talked to have tried it and found that they love it
> and they indicated that were running Fedora.
>
> Larry Linder



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Stephen J Smoogen.
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