Re: GNOME 2.10 is released, what now?

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-03 at 15:36 +0100, Age Bosma wrote:
> Ryan McDougall wrote:

> 
> 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 ;-)

If you just want to *look* at it, there is always the liveCD, which I
think is based on Ubuntu.

> 
> 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?

GNOME2 is guaranteed to be compatible with itself, if any Gnome apps
break on the upgrade then its a huge bug. 
> 
> > 
> > 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?

Wild guess: maybe a month. Depends on when the builders get around to
it; although now it might be easier to roll your own with Fedora
supposedly being open...

> 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?

I always found up2date flakey, but they do essentially the same thing.
Either way you have to add a url to a file then tell it to update gnome.
If you use yum then all you have to do is type `yum --
enablerepo=development update gnome*` as root.
> 
> > 
> > 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 ;-)

Sounds like you either want to switch to Ubuntu, install from Garnome,
or build from source.

> Just out of interest: If I build it from the source myself, will I gain 
> some speed improvement?

Hard to tell, maybe you'd see anywhere from 0-12% increase, closer to
the zero on average. I think most binary packages are shipped with the
standard optimizations and the bottleneck is rarely the CPU, so there
isn't a lot of room for improvement.

> 
> Age

My advice to you: take a weekend and give Garnome a shot, you'll
probably learn a lot doing it.

Cheers,
Ryan