Re: GNOME 2.10 is released, what now?

[Age Bosma <agebosma home nl>]

Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 13:55 +0100, Age Bosma wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I finally got to the point to start using and learning Linux a bit. I've 
> > been running FC3 for a week now and I just noticed GNOME 2.10 is 
> > released. What do I have to do to get this version up and running on my 
> > system? What do I need to download, what do I need to install and how do 
> > I do this?
> > Like I said, I'm completely new to Linux and I wasn't able to find any 
> > doc's on this on the GNOME website, let me know if I overlooked something.
> > On the 2.10 release page there is talk about GARNOME but I'm not sure if 
> > that's what I need. Also, there are platform, desktop and binding 
> > sources, which one should I use?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
>
>
> As a open source user you have an embarrassment of choices available to
> you. The safest way is to wait for your distro's Guarenteed To Work (tm)
> binary packages.

I noticed that yeah :-) I can be quite confusion and frustration for a 
newbe sometimes because you don't know where to start...
I don't want to wait too long so wiating for FC4 isn't an option ;-)

How about compatibility? How big is the risk that some programs won't be 
able to run anymore if I upgrade to GNOME 2.10 right now?

> Ubuntu always has the latest GNOME builds (but FC3 is a good distro too,
> I'm using it). 
>
> Since it'll be a while until FC4 comes out, if you want official
> packages you'll have to add the development sources at
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ to
> your yum or apt setup, then just `yum update gnome*` . Right now they're
> only at 2.9.91.

How long do you think it's approximately going to take before they have 
2.10 up?
Also, I haven't used yum yet, FC has the up2date program, will GNOME 
2.10 be available through that as well in the near future, at least 
before FC4?

> Or you could build from source using garnome following the instructions
> here http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/documentation.html . If you have the
> stomach for it. ;)

I feel that I will get to this eventually but I don't think it's a wise 
thing for me to do just yet ;-)
Just out of interest: If I build it from the source myself, will I gain 
some speed improvement?

Age