Re: [PLUG] RH 6.2 unstable?

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Jeff Abrahamson (on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:18:53AM -0500):
> I need to correct a significant misunderstanding here. GNOME is not a
> file manager, it is a desktop environment. Confusingly, that doesn't
> obligate it to provide the standard compenents of a desktop: it merely
> provides the enabling middleware. So GNOME (and KDE, too) is really
> about middleware (ORBit is a small, light-weight CORBA ORB; bonobo is
> an embedding technology; etc.).

alright, i agree. sorry about the wrong usage of file manager.
however, gmc of gnome is in my opinion even more frequently the source
of crashes than the desktop manager.

i do oppose to file managers in general though. the command line is a
billion times faster!

> I want to second that GNOME itself is quite stable. I have seen X
> crash on rare occasion, and I've seen GNOME apps occasionally die. But
> I've never seen the core GNOME stuff crash on me. YMMV.

well, i switched away from gnome about a year ago, so i am not up to
date on any newer releases since then.

> However, know this: essentially all distributions ship an out of date
> version of GNOME. Before dismissing it, you should try a current
> version.

see above.

martin

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