Re: [Sheflug] gnome and ximian

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 May 2002 1:26 pm, you wrote:
> can someone explain to me the difference between the gnome desktop i get
> with my distro' and the gnome desktop thats on ximian.com ???
>
> is one more stable than the other? does one include evolution?
>
> craig you don't have to answer this, i know you are a kde-man ;-)

I'll define that Gnome in 2 :)

The Ximian GNOME is a specially packages distribution of GNOME designed to 
work together in a much more seamless way than disparate GNOME packages 
alone. The RedCarpet installer, when installing a Ximian package, is almost 
(not _quite_ always) able to satisfy all dependencies using the Ximian 
libraries, or libraries it knows of for your particular distribution.

The Ximian GNOME distribution is customised also to paricular distributions. 
If I install a Ximian package on my RedHat 6 system, is knows how to install 
RedHat 6 specific packages too, to make dependancy problems a thing of the 
near past.

The version of GNOME with your distro is much the same, but taylored to work 
with a different set of RPM packages. Generally, when I used the SuSE 
distribution of GNOME, and tried to install Ximian components, the whole 
thing exploded in a mass of b0rked dependancies and missing files. Not a 
pretty site :-(

All versions can include Evolution, and there are really no versions more 
stable than another, but in the same way RedHat and Mandrake are the same, 
but different, the same can be said for GNOME and Ximian GNOME. Of course, 
the same is true for the various RPM builds of KDE.

HTH

Craig
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