gnome installation guide

[karsten reincke <karsten reincke karubik de>]

hello to all of you;

I can offer a new GNOME Installation Guide to the community of GNOME users
and those who want to become GNOME user: it's a description of how to
install a stable pure GNOME system from scratch, how to enrich such system
by associated GNOME applications and how to find the adequate GNOME
application for a problem/wish. You can find that guide under

http://www.karubik.de/gig

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Discussing with my friends how to participate in the best and latest GNOME
applications we met those problems which you'll ever meet if you seriously
want to participate in GNOME without being GNOME developer:

(1) Distributions with prebuilt binaries normally don't offer the best
version of GNOME.

(2) Distributions with prebuilt binaries normally don't offer a bride set
of associated GNOME applications (= applications which are developed with
and for GNOME but which (still?) are not part of the official gnome
applications server ftp.gnome.org)

(3) There seems to be no guide how to install the libraries and
applications of the pure GNOME system, a guide, which is able to
answer such questions like this: <in which order must you install
which of the offered parts?>

(4) Not all applications of the applications offered under
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources should or must be installed
for getting a stable GNOMRE system. there were offered some obsolete
parts.

(5) The offered list of additional GNOME applications (-> get more
software of the GNOME homepage) contains old and obsolete applications and
doesn't contain many of the also reachable applications.

Having the wish to found a site where we can ...

(a) ... find an explanation how to install the latest valid state of a
stable GNOME system

(b) ... find an explanation how to enrich my GNOME system by other GNOME
applications

(c) ... select an adequate applications

... I've decided to create such side by myself.

>From now on the side http://www.karubik.de/gig offers these possibilities
and will be updated weekly. The installation of mostly all applications
will practically be tested and reported. Therefore you can regard my
system as a reference implementation too.

IMHO this (at least until now) private project seems to be very closely related to the GNOME documentation project. Therefore it should become part of the GDP if that is your opinion too. Independet from this aspect I would be glad to recieve your comments and those of the other GNOME users.

salut bis denne

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