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GNOME 2 To Hit Debian Unstable This Sunday

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-x-many-hours dept.

steveha writes "Colin Walters announced that GNOME 2 will go into Sid (the unstable branch of Debian) this Sunday. Good experimental packages have been available for a while, but there wasn't any upgrade from GNOME 1.x; you lost all your settings. Now there are transition scripts, and the Debian GNOME 2 developers would like people to test the transition scripts as much as possible before Sunday... to quote Colin Waters, '...if you haven't helped us out by testing them already, then you will be forced to anyways this Sunday :)'"

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  1. Alright... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is fine well and good, but when will KDE 3.x get into sid? This was one of the reasons I moved away from Debian in the first place (to gentoo).

    Who knows, maybe I'll go back if Debian developers get their act together and make unstable actually bleeding edge like it used to be.

    1. Re:Alright... by fault0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Alright, but why didn't they just release binaries for KDE 3.0 when it came out eight months ago (april 3rd). Sure, a month or two is fine wait, but eight months isn't, especially for unstable. All it has gotten a number of people disgruntled with Debian.

      I used to use unstable, but now I'm running LFS.