Re: Will Gnome _EVER_ be stable?

["Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur linuxbox nu>]

I really dont know how to respond to this.  I never have problems like
this with GNOME, of course I dont let my hard drive fillup either.


On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 15:38, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Yes, gnome breaks ***very badly*** if you fill your partition.
> 
> I had this happen to me a couple weeks ago, and my configuration was
> completely trashed.  What is more, I could not even log in until
> I freed space (as root).
> 
> Evolution also loses its cookies badly if it runs out of space.
> This is even more criminal, as it is often your personal database
> that gets lost.
> 
> The other very obscure bad breakage Gnome exhibits is if you
> happen to need to change a user's uid.  Unless you run a find
> over the whole system and change the UID everywhere, you'll
> generally have lots of obscure usage.
> 			- Jim
> 
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