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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
