Re: [Helix Updates] GNOME 1.0 "Bongo GNOME" Now Available -- Convince me!!!!!!

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gustav Schaffter <gustav@schaffter.com>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Helix Updates] GNOME 1.0 "Bongo GNOME" Now Available --
Convince me!!!!!!


> Hi,
>
> I am a happy user of Gnome. I have a LAN at home. I run RedHat 6.2 in
> currently four boxes.
>
> After reading the announcement, I spent a good while at the Helix site
> to find out how I could download the Helix Gnome package. Honestly, I
> was looking for one huge, or many small, *.rpm files to download. I went
> around the site, but I couldn't find what I was looking for. I actually
> found myself going round in circles.
>
> The following alternatives were there:
> 1) Buy a 'distribution' which will cost me a lot more than one download
> plus is not what I want and will take time to get to Europe. (Or ship
> UPS 24 hours and pay a lot. BTW, 24 hours UPS to Europe always means at
> least 48 hours. It sucks.)
> 2) Download source code and compile it myself. (I don't even have the
> development stuff installed, cause I lack the time for these actions.
> (Unfortunately, since I'm a developer.))
> 3) Run the Helix Gnome installer, that will download and install it for
> me. (Wait a minute, I've got four boxes here and there will soon be a
> few more... I can't do an on-line installation per box. This just cannot
> be the intention.)
>
> What I want, is to do a download of a binary package for RedHat to my
> server and then install it in as many boxes as I want.
>
> Now, please tell me that I'm blind and didn't see/find the *real*
> download spot for a binary RH distribution of Gnome.

Did you look in ftp.helixcode.com/pub/helix/distributions/RedHat-6?

--Ben

> Otherwise, please convince me (in any your way) that I should stick to
> Gnome.
>
> Regards
> Gustav
>