This is why Xfce was dropped from Fedora Core 4

[Jens Luedicke]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:18:03 +0100, Xavier Otazu <xotazu at cvc.uab.es> wrote:

>         They delete abiword/gnumeric to favour OpenOffice !!!! IMHO, Its really
> amazing! ... and stupid. Everybody knows that OO is full of bugs and security
> issues because it is like a Microsoft emulator... not to talk about the
> slooooooow behaviour and bloody-extra-memory-disk size of OO. Another reason is
> that gnumeric and abiword have less problems that OO to show Microsoft
> documents.

[..]

Looking at the list of dropped applications I can understand the
reason why xfce was dropped.
Sure it's annoying that xfce was dropped, but I can understand that
they focus on apps that are widely known, high-profile apps.
OpenOffice.org may be buggy, but afterall its a complete integrated
office suite. Fedora is the development playground for RedHat
Enterprise Linux and I'm not surprised that RH wants a core
distribution that contains a list of well-known and well-maintained
packages. RHEL is used in companies and they don't need a large
package-base with tons of software programs. I don't think that a
sysadmin inside a company chooses AbiWord and Gnumeric for office work
when he sets up a machine.
 
It's annoying, but understandable. 

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Jens Luedicke
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