On 28 Mar 2000 04:15:39 -0500, Daniel Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Q. Why is the Gnome version on Redhat 6.2 so ancient ?
>I was really looking forward to get a real nice default Gnome desktop
>(like the Helix one) when
>installing my new wonderful Redhat Linux OS.
>(I has been a pleasure since RH 4.0)
>
>However, when starting my Gnome desktop i almost started to cry when i saw
>that it was a really old setup(Heck, there isnt even the rezizble panel
>that has been there since November
That is a development version. Just because it has been around since
November doesn't mean much - things are not really even feature-frozen
yet.
>OK, stop whining you say, but hey, Gnome has evolved a lot since october
>Gnome and the version on RH 6.2 dosent show any of the new features that
>are in the "STABLE" version of Gnome.(and have been there well in time to
>get it on the CD)
It's not "STABLE", it's the development branch. The latest available
stable versions of all the Gnome stuff are in 6.2.
If you want the features from the devel branch, you can get the package
and install it, or compile it out of CVS like I do :)
-- Elliot
"Moron of the week" for four years running
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