Re: [gnome-love] Which distro?

["Wayward Soul" <demonic_saint eudoramail com>]

Well debian woody will do find, u just have to install gnome 2.2 after u install woody. 

deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/mozilla-1.3/
deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody i386/

add this 2 lines to ur /etc/apt/sources.list then type apt-get update and apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get 
install gnome-core gdm

if u get lost this might help

http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=924

u should have a spunky new gnome 2.2 desktop just ready for u.

or u could also try slackware 9.0, which comes with gnome 2.2 out of the box, after that go over to dropline 
systems and follow the instuctions to install dropline gnome to update slackware to have a more up to date 
gnome.

http://www.dropline.net/gnome/

hope this helps :)
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:33:45
From: news optimistic co uk
To: gnome-love gnome org
Cc: 

> Greetings to all fellow Gnome lovers!
> I'm a bit of a newbie here-abouts, and I've just discovered Gnome 2.2.
> I need a little help, however.
> Here is the situation:
>
> - I really like Gnome, especially Gnome 2.2
> - I presently can only use Linux on one machine, a 500Mhz AMD with 400MB RAM.
> - I have tried this machine running SuSe with KDE, it was pretty smooth.
> - I dislike both SUSE and KDE strongly - especially because you have to pay for it (I am a student), and my 
> version did not come with any development tools.
> - I have also tried this machine with RedHat 9 + Gnome 2.2.
> - This seemed to be horribly un-responsive (especially compared with Windows/SuSe)
> - I thought that Debian might be a bit faster.
> - I tried Debian Woody, liked its net-install feature very much but found it only came with Gnome 1.4.
> - I tried Debian Sarge, but discovered that it was pretty impossible for someone like me to install. Doing a 
> chroot install seemed to me like a bit of a headache.
>
> I am now looking for a distro which will run Gnome as efficiently as possible and be reasonably easy to 
> install (i.e. no self-builds, no chroot etc.).
>
> Anyone have any bright ideas?
> Love to all Gnome lovers,
> -- 
> Thomas K
>
>
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