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  1. GNOME stability by Raul+Acevedo · · Score: 2 · on Red Hat Growing Pains
    The following URL contains updated RPM packages for GNOME that should fix a lot of bugs:

    ftp://ftp.inconn ect.com/pub/unix/linux/redhat-6.0/contrib-updates/

    I agree with a previous poster, most of RedHat 6.0's instability is really with GNOME and Enlightenment.

    On that note, I'm really curious as to what's going on with GNOME development right now. For a couple months, they were making releases like mad, fixing bugs left and right. Since GNOME 1.0, it has slowed down quite a bit. So, what are the GNOME folks focusing on? Enhancements or bug fixes? I would hope that they are working bug fixes rather than enhancements; stability should still be GNOME's #1 priority for the next couple of months. However, I don't really see too many releases coming out. "Release often" isn't necessarily a sign of bugs getting fixed, but it can sure be one.

    Final note to the RedHat and GNOME folks: PLEASE make RPMs readily available! I found the above site by pure luck, and I believe those RPMs are built by someone not officially associated with either RedHat or GNOME. It is very difficult if not almost impossible to build GNOME updates if your base GNOME is from RPMs, especially if you have RedHat 6.0 which has special RedHat tweaks. Your #1 problem right now is stability, and unless you make it easy for people to upgrade to more stable versions, complaints of buggy software will hound both of you for a long time to come.
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  2. Re:My Problem; GNOME RedHat updates by Raul+Acevedo · · Score: 1 · on On Red Hat Bashing...
    RedHat 6.0 has worked pretty well for me. I've only noticed a couple of minor, annoying bugs. Of course everybody's mileage will vary...

    Now my apologies for something slightly off-topic but very useful. For all you GNOME and RedHat users: I just discovered an extremely useful place where you can find RPM updates of GNOME:

    ftp://ftp.inconn ect.com/pub/unix/linux/redhat-6.0/contrib-updates/

    This site is extremely useful; I don't know why GNOME and RedHat don't publicize and mirror the RPMs that are built there. (Miguel, are you listening? :)

    If you have RedHat 5.x, there are SRPMS there too which you can use to build these 6.0 RPMS for your system:

    rpm --rebuild SRPMFILE
    rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NEW_RPMFILE

    One of my main complaints with RedHat (and GNOME) is that they don't put enough effort into providing updated RPMs for key system components. Especially for GNOME, for which stability has always been the key complaint.

    Enjoy...
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  3. Re:Red Hat comes to their senses. by Brandon+S.+Allbery · · Score: 2 · on Rasterman leaves RedHat

    Red Hat shipped an older and buggy (early 1.0) version of GNOME. You can get updated GNOME RPMs for Red Hat 6, which will help stability considerably.

    The current CVS GNOME is quite stable. I haven't used E much yet, but hope to get it set up on my Ultra 10 soon.