On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:52PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > That depends on whether you consider you can trust helixcode or not. > "arbitrary" to me means "selected at random", but that might just be > my bad English, I suppose.
read my original message, trusting helix is a very small part of the equation. do a traceroute to go-gnome.com, its 19 hops for me, do you trust each and every one? its much easier to intercept and hijack a little shell script then it is to modify a binary. afterall you only need to slip a rm -rf / in there to cause disaster. also do you trust your DNS servers? etc etc > Sure, but where does that fit into the scenario? Newbie doesn't know > about chmod yet. Maybe this is something helixcode should consider? microsoft likes to keep their users in the dark, and their administrators not too much brighter. -- James Bagley Jr. my point is they need to learn chmod eventually might as well make it now. > I did use tasksel, chose the gnome desktop, then followed the exact > steps outlined in my previous posting. It was installed OK, just not > configured. When I ran go-gnome, I first backed out the few changes > I had made to XSession, so it would be a fair comparison. what? something is REALLY borked about your install then, all that is necessary is the alternatives being configured properly. which happens at install. if you had to fix /etc/X11/Xsession something is very broken, i use WindowMaker and i don't have to mess with that file. (except to add resource limits...) > <sarcasm> Nothing, other than the fact that it works. </sarcasm> proven otherwise on debian-devel, debian gnome works fine. > OK, I can buy in to that. If you feel so strongly about it, maybe > you should mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and suggest that they > modify the instructions on their download page. I, for one, don't > know how to download that file using the command line, so to be as > useful as before they would have to describe that step too. kmself saved me the trouble ;-) > I can't answer for popular belief, only my own experience. I'm sure > the debian gnome install can easily be fixed with some slight > modifications. Just ask those guys at helix what they did that was > so special. add lots of helix logos? ;-) really that is all anyone could really see for differences between a standard debian gnome setup and a helix setup, helix logos (which apparently helix might not allow distribution of, but won't confirm or deny, that alone prevents it from going into debian) and a lighter color scheme. maybe a newer version here and there, but if you want the newest you use unstable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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