Re: I can't beat Mongol Hordes

[Raphael Bosshard <whistler bluewin ch>]

Does it sound strange when I say that I really love Mr. Villa's 
release-notes?

Raphael

Luis Villa wrote:

> But I can release packages of them. But first, an homage to our more
> artistic and less violent side.
>
> Obligatory Haiku
> ================
>
> shining new software
> ooh, ahh, shining. and broken.
> one with bugzilla[1]
>
> What the hell is Luis talking about?
> ====================================
>
> There is a new, almost painfully unstable, Ximian Desktop in red
> carpet's 'xd-unstable' channel. Why 'unstable', you ask? When it is
> based on the uber-wonderful, uber-stable, uber-Khan-like GNOME 2.4?
> Because-
>
> (1) it is currently full of regressions from XD2.0.
>
> (2) Some packages are still not GNOME 2.4.0- they may be 2.2, or
> 2.3.late. Mostly 2.4.0, though.
>
> (3) we plan on moving it to GNOME 2.5 as we get our patches upstream, so
> it will probably get more, not less, unstable as time passes.
>
> (4) it is unsupported. If we break it, you pick up the pieces.
>
> I can't stress (4) enough- if you're a paid RCX customer, if you
> install these packages, your support is Nullo and Voido. In fact, you
> can't actually install over RCX right now- it's basically a bug, but
> we're thinking of keeping it that way. [You can 'rug up' but that might
> leave you with an even /more/ broken setup.]
>
> This is the greatest thing since Red Carpet 0.9.2.[2] How do I get it?
> ======================================================================
>
> First, you go to http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/xd-testers
> and sign up for the xd-testers list. If we decide to take a hammer to
> your setup one morning, this list /might/ contain tips on putting it
> back together again, or possibly even a 'duck!' warning the morning that
> it happens.
>
> I've signed up for the list I swear
> ===================================
>
> Then follow the instructions at
> http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/desktop/ to install. :)
>
> Known Issues
> ============
>
> * only RH9 right now; SuSE 8.2 is Coming Real Soon when the Heroic
> Miguel Ibarra completes his Dramatic Attack on the packages.
>
> * It will install over a 'clean' RH9, but we recommend using it over XD2
> since that's slightly more tested internally.
>
> * no gnomemeeting; still having problems getting the latest version of
> the deps building reliably. Will have it by the end of the week.
>
> * we aren't currently shipping galeon in xd-unstable, and we are
> shipping a slightly newer mozilla. So, installing xd-unstable will 
> remove galeon in favor of epiphany. We realize that's not for everyone.
> :)
>
> * lots of panel/menu work still to be done, including rounded corners (I
> blame Mark, also I suck for not bitching about the regression.) Oh,
> also, you'll pretty much have to set up your panels from scratch after
> you install. :)
>
> * related to that, if you're using a new account, your panel setup  will
> be totally foobared. It should upgrade from an existing XD2 setup fairly
> cleanly, though.
>
> * quite possibly will break your gstreamer setup if you have one that
> currently works.
>
> So... hope that is sufficiently scary. Still, should be fun. Hope to
> see many of you along for the ride.
>
> Luis, on behalf of the rest of the very kick-ass Ximian Desktop team
> [and with great thanks to the Mongol Horde that makes our desktop
> possible.]
>
> [1] bugzilla.ximian.com in this case. Though I'm all in favor of
> one-ness with any bugzilla.
>
> [2] I am /still/ in awe of this release announcement and realize that
> nothing I can write can be more than a pale imitation of that
> release. Go google for it. Worth your while. I swear. Though now that we
> have all of these Novell resources we're thinking of commissioning
> McSweeney's to do our next announcement for us.
>
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