On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 15:36 +0100, Age Bosma wrote: > Ryan McDougall wrote: > > I noticed that yeah :-) I can be quite confusion and frustration for a > newbe sometimes because you don't know where to start... > I don't want to wait too long so wiating for FC4 isn't an option ;-) If you just want to *look* at it, there is always the liveCD, which I think is based on Ubuntu. > > How about compatibility? How big is the risk that some programs won't be > able to run anymore if I upgrade to GNOME 2.10 right now? GNOME2 is guaranteed to be compatible with itself, if any Gnome apps break on the upgrade then its a huge bug. > > > > > Ubuntu always has the latest GNOME builds (but FC3 is a good distro too, > > I'm using it). > > > > Since it'll be a while until FC4 comes out, if you want official > > packages you'll have to add the development sources at > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ to > > your yum or apt setup, then just `yum update gnome*` . Right now they're > > only at 2.9.91. > > How long do you think it's approximately going to take before they have > 2.10 up? Wild guess: maybe a month. Depends on when the builders get around to it; although now it might be easier to roll your own with Fedora supposedly being open... > Also, I haven't used yum yet, FC has the up2date program, will GNOME > 2.10 be available through that as well in the near future, at least > before FC4? I always found up2date flakey, but they do essentially the same thing. Either way you have to add a url to a file then tell it to update gnome. If you use yum then all you have to do is type `yum -- enablerepo=development update gnome*` as root. > > > > > Or you could build from source using garnome following the instructions > > here http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/documentation.html . If you have the > > stomach for it. ;) > > > > I feel that I will get to this eventually but I don't think it's a wise > thing for me to do just yet ;-) Sounds like you either want to switch to Ubuntu, install from Garnome, or build from source. > Just out of interest: If I build it from the source myself, will I gain > some speed improvement? Hard to tell, maybe you'd see anywhere from 0-12% increase, closer to the zero on average. I think most binary packages are shipped with the standard optimizations and the bottleneck is rarely the CPU, so there isn't a lot of room for improvement. > > Age My advice to you: take a weekend and give Garnome a shot, you'll probably learn a lot doing it. Cheers, Ryan _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
