<quote who="Terry Collins">
> Has anyone used Ximian Gnome?
Aye, aye!
> Pro's Con's ?
Pros:
- Supposedly, you get the latest and greatest of the Gnome Project's work,
independently of the slow pace most distros update it. This would be a
more powerful benefit if Ximian were actually doing any updating at the
moment. (To their credit, a lot of their hackers are working overtime on
the Gnome 1.4 release, and doing a fair bit of planning/flaming over GNOME
2.0)
- It's purdy.
- The Helix Updater, or Red Carpet, the new updater keeps Gnome up to date,
auto-downloading etc, on distros that don't support this. Red Carpet
(still at 0.9ish) does distribution updating with dependencies, much like
apt (although distros without long-time support for these sorts of things
are proving to be a real hassle).
Cons:
- It's distribution independent. I'm not sure I like the idea of Red Carpet,
as the only people I want updating my distro is... my distro vendor. Also,
many distros go to a lot of effort to make software work within their
utility sets, etc., and Ximian Gnome is out of kilter with that (I'm
thinking of things like 'menu' and other infrastructural packages).
> (very unlikely to survive to MacLug (someone thinks they are cute))
Rupert is a very cute little monkey. :) Check out http://mrruperts.org/ for
some (very freaking cool) soon-to-be-released software named for him.
> I don't mind trying in on the Solaris8 boxen (Sparc10), but I'd like to
> know that it doesn't cause any major trouble before I test it on a Linux
> boxen as most of these are critical.
Just... Don't expect everything to work absolutely brilliantly. Gnome will
be the default desktop on Solaris 9 however, so there's certainly a lot of
work going on to make it excellent.
- Jeff
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- http://lwn.net/daily/ --
"I think that Clueless was deep. I think it was deep in the way
that it was light. I think lightness has to come from a deep place if it's
true lightness." - Alicia Silverstone
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
