Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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. > Actually that's neither gnome-shell or GNOME2, but yet another user interface. If it has a name other than fallback mode, I don't know it, and it's poorly documented, as is appropriate for something which doesn't seem to be intended for actual daily use. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
