Re: Current talk from gnomedesktop.org
- From: "Daniel Farrell" <daniel farrells org>
- To: "MArk Finlay" <sisob eircom net>
- Cc: gnome-os gnome org
- Subject: Re: Current talk from gnomedesktop.org
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 08:51:41 -0400 (EDT)
Hey Mark,
>> I've thought a lot about the lower levels of the OS... I would like to
>> innovate some on RedHat or Debian, or whatever we base it on... Things
>> like parralel service starting... and the zerconf stuff I mentioned
>> before...
>
> Yeah, sounds really cool. My only reservation would be that if we do
> anything useful like that that would be useful to other distros we do it
> in such a way that it can be used easily by everyone. The whole rc
> scripts are less than optimal, and it would be cool to get rendevouz
> technology into linux/gnome. I'm looking forward to seeing redhat's new
> gtk2 bootup in whatever is the next version of their distro, wonder if
> they plan on improving the whole thing or just making it prettier...
>
> I've learned (the hard way sometimes) in the past that linux and open
> source must evolve at it's own pace and cutting corners for the sake of
> getting something sooner can be bad. I'm not suggesting that that's what
> you ment, but thought i'd rant anyway ;)
Yeah, I'm all for sharing useful stuff... we don't want to compete with
RedHat/Mandrake/Debian/etc/etc/etc... we want us all(as a team) to
compete with MS Windows XP and Mac OS X...
>> I currently use Debian... but will look into RedHat's base...
>
> Yeah, personally I use redhat and know it's base well and like a lot of
> their inovations and addons to gnome. Also the redhat installer
> (anaconda) is very powerful and well tested, and debian's is far from
> easy to use.
Well, I wasted a whole evening the other night trying out Redhat 9... and
it was a aweful experience... the GUI installer wouldn't work(probably my
Radeon 8500AIWDV video card)... and I could only install a bare minimum
system off of only 1 CD(was too impatient to download and burn them
all)... then trying to build the system up from there was not fun... and
finally after dealing with lots of dependency problems I just ditched it
and reinstalled Debian...
So, my vote is for building off of Debian... :-)
> I'm a much bigger fan of ximian and gnome artwork than bluecurve...
Agreed... the gnome/ximian artwork is great!
> And I can send you more artwork etc... off list
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing what you have put together.
> ps. If you're planning on GUADECING we could possibly do some face to
> face discussion then..
That would be nice... but there isn't a chance of me making it to GUADEC
this year... I'm pretty much working 2 full-time jobs(only getting paid
for one) at the moment, plus I don't have any extra money...
Dan
[Date Prev][
Date Next] [Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]