From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 24 14:35:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3936737B42F for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4DBA; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:35:44 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:30:03 -0700 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NAKS81X4; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:30:24 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Ryan M , newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: Gnome2 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:35:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <3D1722E1.1000706@72oot.net> In-Reply-To: <3D1722E1.1000706@72oot.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206241435.36675.djohnson@acuson.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 24 June 2002 06:47 am, Ryan M wrote: > How come gnome.org seem to be obtuse and outdated? As a KDE fan, my opinions are strong on this subject, but I will refrain from commenting... > When i installed gnome2 on 4.6 release about half way through I got a > dialogue stating GDM is insecure, but you have to install it to > continue? There should be a way around this, but i could not find it, > oohh well. i dont use it anyway... Does it say *why* it's insecure? If it's because it's a suid executable, then there's not much you can do about it except not run it. Several X programs fall into this category. I believe XDM and KDM are suid as well. > I see in their Release roadmap that every new version breaks > compatibility with the previous. This is due to their decentralized release process and lack of project cohesion. Every GNOME subproject has its own release schedule, dependencies and version. It can be very hard for a GNOME newbie to figure out. As one example, it's why some GNOME stuff requires imlib and others require gdkpixbuf. You've heard the saying "like trying to herd cats". Well, GNOME developers are like a bunch of cats with the release manager playing the pitiful role of cat herder. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message