Re: What is Gnome?

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 22:00 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I work as a system administrator for the students computer lab at the
> mathematics department at the Norwegian University of Science and
> Technology. We have have 52 computers running FreeBSD.
> 
> We see that each year the new students are less and less familiar with
> unix, and many find it very intimidating. Alot of the students just
> click the Windows-icon on the desktop, which starts an rdesktop
> connection to our terminal server running Windows 2003.

with gnome, vnc can used.

> 
> To help our new students get along, we've considered installing a more
> modern and user friendly desktop environment (as well as giving
> introduction courses, etc). In this regard I was looking at Gnome, since
> alot of the linux distributions seems to use it. However, I'm very
> disappointed in the information on the website, www.gnome.org.
> 
> Looking for a list of application that constitutes the gnome desktop, I
> found nothing. Looking for screenshots, I found nothing. Looking for
> info on the file manager. Nothing. What features does the window manager
> have? I don't know? What does Gnome offer me for site-wide configuration
> of multi user systems? Beats me!

system wide configuration is still in infancy afaik.
Checkout http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/

on a personal note , i find kde's kiosk framework better afaik.
but i prefer gnome's polished looks and feel.

> 
> Whereas, the Xfce website, I instantly found the "Overview" link, giving
> me some basic info on the windows manager, the taskbar, file manager,
> etc. It has a "Screenshots" link right there on the front page.
> 
> 
> I hope some of you can offer me some insights, as I really think that
> Gnome has more to offer than the website would suggest.
> 
> 
> 	Sincerely,
> 	Svein Halvor
> 
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