On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:48:57PM +0000, Tom Berger wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:11:15 -0400, you wrote:
> >Heh, nope!  It's just me and my little 56k modem.  From looking at the
> >backups, the whole thing is around 30M of download.  Not TOO bad.  Of
> >course, you probably don't need to grab ALL of them if you're not interested
> >in running GNOME.  If you just want to be able to compile glib/gtk+
> >programs, you could probably get away with downloading the glib-1.2, glib10,
> >gtk+-1.2, gtk+10 and the appropriate -devel packages.
> >
> >Good luck!
> 
> Already done that, np compiles like a charm now :-). 
> Well, 30 MB are not that bad, it's less than MS Exploder 5... What
> about stability and general usuability of GNOME, is it worth dl'ing?

It's MUCH better than the original 1.0 release.  I haven't had a crash yet
and I've been using it steady for around 2 weeks now.  The nightly updates
to the RPMs have stopped now, as well, so everything you grab should be
steady.

Give it a try, you might like it!

-- 
Steve Philp
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