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ULB GNOME 2.8.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-desktop dept.

riggwelter writes "FootNotes reports the availability of GNOME 2.8.0 packages for SUSE Linux. For the first time, a new GNOME desktop release is available for SUSE within a couple of weeks of the source release."

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  1. I might be trolling but... by El+Icaro · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even though I started with suse I keep finding it more and more bloated (notice i'm not mentioning any desktop environments) no matter with what UI you use it. It also seems to move in the madrake direction. It is starting to use it's own personalized all-in-one configuration/setup utilities which lock out more "expert" user options. If I want to edit something in another distro I look for the file in /etc, here I have to look for diferent suse config files, and check to see why X option is greyed out in yast and then try to find documentation as to why it happens. I usually prefer enabling or disabling an option from the config file and look in the log, than just receive a "sorry, can't do that" answer (I'm a bit of a masochist ;)).

    1. Re:I might be trolling but... by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Yast reads and writes to files in /etc/sysconfig. The rc files all also read those same files. There are no "suse config" files, at least no more so than in any other *nix.

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  2. Re:And the reason... by riggwelter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, no, ULB GNOME is a community provided effort, independent of SuSE/Novell

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  3. LIke It, With Quibbles by reallocate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I installed it last night on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Appears to be very well done.

    Quibbles: It doesn't include hal and dbus; OpenOffice won't launch ("...libvcl645li.so: undefined symbol: XineramaIsActive"); install instructions seem out of synch and in need of updating.

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