On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:12 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I was looking at gnome3.org today, and their FAQ says that "The traditional > GNOME 2 desktop will not disappear overnight, however: releases of GNOME 2 will > continue to be supported by distributions for years to come." so clearly they > don't imagine everyone will drop all their software and retrain all their users > overnight. > > Ubuntu doesn't see to have that thought, either. > > I was looking for a way to run fc15 in a VM, which worked in the alpha and > hasn't (for me) since. The FAQ says that's the case, no VM has a powerful enough > video emulation to handle the worthless eye candy. The Virtualbox people say > much the same, but their spin is that the video could do the job but GNOME > insisted on using some direct to hardware stuff they don't off. I freely admit I > didn't spend a lot of time deciding anything other than both of them imply the > fault is with the other. I have F15 running in a VirtualBox VM under MacOS on my company laptop. Gnome seems to be in "fall-back" mode as far as I can tell. I'm more of a KDE user so I don't really know, but it is at least usable. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
