GNOME

[Tim Schmidt]

As a relatively new user, Turbolinux 6 is a little more manual than SuSE 
6.4, although probably not as manual as Slack, or Debian (I don't know, 
never tried those two).  I love Gnome 1.2, it took a while to get it 
configured to my liking, but so far, it's been more stable than KDE was on 
the same hardware.  I finally got XFree86 4 installed, working now on the 
nVidia drivers, I'll keep everyone posted if you care.

--Tim


>From: Alan Garrison <agarris@voyager.net>
>To: Tim Schmidt <computer_holic@hotmail.com>, GLLUG 
><linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
>Subject: Re: GNOME
>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:38:03 -0400
>
>Tim Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > I had 4.0 installed on SuSE 6.4, but could never get it to run as the
> > default X server, I still had 3.3.6 installed, and Xinsisted on using
> > that.
> > I could type in XFree86 -version at the prompt, and it would display 
>4.0,
> > but 3.3.6 was being used.
>
>Just a suggestion:  When you get more adept with Linux, I'd
>recommend switching to a more "manual" distro.  I tried SuSE
>a while back (at version 6.0) with the hopes that YaST would
>make life easier.  Turns out I hated YaST, and I preferred the
>more manual approach (of course, your mileage may vary).
>
> > Anyway, I've switched to Turbolinux 6.0 because I feel it's a lot more
> > compatable with software (at least, it's a lot easier for me to find
> > software that will install easily).  It's Red Hat based although heavily
> > modified.  I have not ventured to install XFree86 4 yet (I'm just now
> > sitting down at my box) and I don't have a lot of time to mess around 
>with
> > it as it's not very high on my priorities (the only reason I'm trying to
> > tinstall it at all is for the nVidia accelerated graphcis drivers for 4
> > that
> > will let me play some Quake 3 at a decent speed (I have a GeForce, I 
>also
> > have DL'd the appropriate drivers).
>
>I haven't done gaming with my Linux boxen yet, although my
>Matrox G400 Max is dying to be used in such a context... :)
>
> > On a related note, I've finished the new GNOME instalation, it went
> > flawlessly and is a beutiful and functional upgrade.  It'll definately 
>be
> > my
> > default working environment (I'm running the sawfish wm).  It took a
> > little
> > tweaking from the default settings to make me comfortable, but it was 
>well
> > worth the download.
>
>GNOME is great when stable.  KDE is geared for newbies, and I
>actually try to avoid it, but I am interested in the current
>capabilities of KDE 2.0.
>
> > I will try to install XF86 4 on Turbolinux 6 and get back to you, maybe
> > it'll be a little less painfull than SuSE.
>
>I'd guess not, but give it a shot.
>
> > --Tim
>
>--
>Alan Garrison  ___ agarris@voyager.net
>"The fact that Microsoft found that many bugs [in Windows 2000] indicates
>to me just how thorough their testing processes are," said the Windows
>developer, who requested anonymity. -- ZDNet Article
>
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