Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:45:39 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Just curious - is there a doc that lists comparisons between GNOME and KDE? > > Just to to dejanews and do a search under 'flame'. ;-) > LOL - Okay. I've picked myself up off the floor now. ;) > S

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Just curious - is there a doc that lists comparisons between GNOME and KDE? Just to to dejanews and do a search under 'flame'. ;-) Seriously, I don't know of any document that does that exactly, but you can read one author's opinions at http://linux.miningco.com/

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, David Densmore wrote: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? >(or it it something else?) It is something else. Gnome stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is (or will be when completed) a complete desktop based on the GTK+ toolk

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 4:05:04 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Something else. You can use your existing WM with gnome. > Gnome just provides libraries for applications and also several > utility apps. The gnome-panel is an example of a utility app. > Also, the gnome

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Florian Steffen
1. Gnome is not a replacement for X, nor a Window Manager. You need both X and a window manager (any one will work, but some, like WindowMaker or Enlightenment, provides additional functionalities to work seamlessly with gnome). Gnome is a desktop environment, that means that it provides an integra

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? >(or it it something else?) Something else. You can use your existing WM with gnome. Gnome just provides libraries for applications and also several utility apps. The gnome-panel is an example

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/15/99 3:26:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X? > (or it it something else?) > Gnome is more of an object handling system than anything. I suppose you could consider it a desktop envi

Re: two quick questions

1999-02-21 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> How can I make setserial changes permanent. I'm using com 7 which is > 0x3E8 > and irq 5. Irq 5 instead of irq 4 is a permanent change as far as my system > goes but setserial reverts back to irq 4 at each reboot. man setserial, the file you need to edit is /etc/rc.boot/0setserial Andrew