Re: Can I use GNOME without cutting myself on the bleeding edge?

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> If you run the packaged versions (.deb or official .rpm) and a stable
> window manager (i.e. E is relatively flaky, it's not "finished"), then it

there should be no problems with E 0.15.5
--Ben


> works well. The tarballs work fine too, but you can easily introduce
> instability by failing to remove all the remnants of past installations.
> Also, removing old ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome_private dirs can help. Finally,
> gnome-session is relatively unstable and if stability is your main goal
> perhaps best avoided (see the thread that just went by).
> 
> Havoc
> 
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