[GEM Development] NextGEM website and release date

[Gene Buckle]

> > > NextGEM will be based (it seems) on NetBSD 1.6.1 and KDE 3.1.4.
> > >
> >
> > I don't know about anyone else, but that tells me it hasn't a damn thing
> > to do with GEM at all.
>
> In code terms...nope.  It will not be DR GEM, nor will it use DR GEM code.
> Basically I am planning to take a *NIX distro, cut out all the crap, and
> impliment an automatic install.  There is a PORT command with NetBSD that
> gets new applications, checks dependencies, and downloads the kaboodle with
> one command as well, which I will look at using tom impliment an easy
> install processer for applications.
>
> NextGEM will not have anything to do with DOS or DR GEM code.  I will just
> be trying to apply the simplicity of design I encountered with GEM to a more
> powerful system, and I liked the name...
>

So instead of improving GEM and making it more capable, you're going to
use unix and KDE and _call_ it GEM.  How astonishingly lame.

g.