Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:57:05 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Andrew Diller wrote:
> I got Gnome working on my G3 finally.
>
> Its not as nice as what comes with RH6 intel, but Dan, you said you would
> be preparing some new GNOME RPMS.
Yes.. those are already GNOME RPMS.. the GNOME team polished things up
VERY nicely in a short time period.
>
>
> I can't get my G3 to boot into xdm, even though the init level is set to 5.
>
> But I can log into root and exec xdm.
Do you have gdm installed?
>
> I really like KDE, and 1.1 is really nice. There are tons of apps for it.
> But I like that GNOME actually supports different windowmangers itseld. ICE
> is really cool, so is enlightment. They seem to be more configurable than
> KDE.
> But with RH, I can move between KDE and GNOME pretty easily, so I plan on
> keeping both of them on my system.
>
> Right now, KDE has way more KDE 'aware' apps, but that may change as more
> people are introduced to GNOME via RedHat.
>
> -andy
>
> Evan Read wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Andrew Diller wrote:
> >
> > I had a quick look at GNome but thought that KDE was better.
> >
> > I am still at the earlier stage where I could be swayed either way so I am
> > curious,
> >
> > what about GNome is better? Are the built in tool better?
> >
> > If I were to install it, do I get a working email client and ICQ client
> > (both graphical) and maybe (but less important) a working (even shitty)
> > browser?
> >
> > KDE seems to have some redraw issues (ie, it doesn't do it enough) and
> > some general stability issues. I really quite like it, but am curious
> > about my options (that is why I have been trying Linux on the desktop in
> > the first place - so I have options).
> >
> > Are there good C IDE available for it? KDevelop is giving me trouble with
> > installation.
> >
> > Anyways, thanks.
> >
> > > I saw the GNOME dir on ftp.yellowdog.com.
> > >
> > > I never thought it could get better than KDE, but I've been playing with a
> > > RH6 intel machine, and I love GNOME.
> > >
> > > What does it take to get GNOME going on Champion 1.0, besides downloading
> > > all the rpms and installing them.
> > >
> > > I know it can ever be that easy.... I remember trying to upgrade from KDE
> > > 1.0 to 1.1 with Caldera Openlinux when they said, "just install all the
> > > RPMS." Yeah right.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone using GNOME with Champion 1.0?
> > >
> > > -andy
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > Andrew Diller
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> > >
> >
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> >
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>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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