Re: Gnome 2.7 on Fedora

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On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:56 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 07:34 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > man, 09,.08.2004 kl. 03.56 +0000, skrev Tom McLaughlin:
> > > Hi, I'm looking to install Fedora on a machine of mine for the
> > purpose
> > > of running Gnome 2.7.  I'm regularly a FreeBSD user where I'm
> > running
> > > Gnome 2.7 right now and I'd like to have a linux machine as a basis
> > of
> > > comparison to track down bugs.  I'd like to know if there are any
> > > reliable rpm repositories for Gnome 2.7 out there?  My interest is
> > in
> > > tracking the state of Gnome 2.7 instead of Gnome on Fedora.  That
> > means
> > > the recent updates to Gnome for RC 3 don't really help me.  I'd like
> > to
> > > have as vanilla an install of Gnome as possible and be able to keep
> > both
> > > machines' Gnome installs relatively in sync with one another.
> > > 
> > 
> > GNOME 2.7.x has started appearing in rawhide/the development tree on
> > the
> > ftp servers. You're probably better off testing what is to become the
> > official packages I guess, so start beta testing now? :)
> 
> With the 2.7.x series, rawhide has only been a few days behind Matt's
> repository. I know in the past, Matt has hacked in some things like some
> of the Ximian patches, but I don't know if he's still doing that. And
> other than the default panel and theme settings, I don't think Fedora's
> packages are tweaked that much, though I could be wrong.
> 

Okay, cool.  I just wanted to make sure both of my machines would be
similar so I had a good reference.  Thanks a bunch for the info.

Tom

> > 
> > Cheers
> > Kjartan
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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