From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 13: 3:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from syru205-140.syr.edu (syru205-140.syr.edu [128.230.205.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C7215209 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:03:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhavyn@syru205-140.syr.edu) Received: (from rhavyn@localhost) by syru205-140.syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10492 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:00:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:00:04 -0400 From: Chris Conrad To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it? Message-ID: <19991004160004.A10465@syru205-140.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Chris Conrad wrote: >=20 > > Unfortunately, however, most of the major work on the GNOME occurs on > > Linux. I have a Redhat 6.1 box, and on that machine, I have never had > > the GNOME crash on me. I don't think I recal even having a GNOME app > > crash on me. On FreeBSD however, the GNOME is just miserable. >=20 > This is completely contrary to what I've heard - that Gnome is unstable > even on Linux. It may be _more_ stable on Linux (Red Hat in particular), > but I haven't heard glowing reviews of its stability anywhere. >=20 > Brett Again, this is from my own personal experience. I have tried the Gnome with Debian, SuSE, Redhat, and Mandrake. The only distribution that gave me any trouble was SuSE 6.1 and that was because it had an old version of the Gnome on it. Redhat, Debian and Mandrake have all worked flawlessly, particularly if you keep up with the patches. I have had alot of success with Gnome core 1.07 and Gnome libs 1.0.10. If anyone wants, I can get into some of the details of why the Gnome can be unstable, and how to fix some of it problems. Also AFAIK, version 1.0.50 will fix alot of the instability seen previously as well as allow for the framwork of 2.0. Again, if anyone would like some help, I'd be happy to provide what I can, and maybe point you in the right direction, please email me. Chris --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE3+QdEpolY3ACeQwwRAQokAJwM1Vg7A2BLSeQm3jZ5z7MBnWfo8QCfX5rS wR0wHWe01CiDrYxgIxtMZsI= =DO9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message