RE: [SLE] KDE 3.x or Gnome 2.0 or Ximian
What about Ximian? Has anyone have any experience with it on SuSE? CR
My experience (and this is kind of what inspired www.usr-local-bin.org) is that using Ximian GNOME on SuSE is a right pain in the proverbial, especially when it comes to doing distro upgrades. They install things (most annoyingly libraries) into totally different places than the standard SuSE setup, not to mention that they name packages differently, which can cause no end of confusion when doing the afore-mentioned distro upgrade. I've nothing against Ximian themselves, they are great hackers and all that, it's just that they have to focus on certain specific distros for building their packages, and those distros are Red Hat (and only really certain versions of that) and Debian.
What about Ximian? Has anyone have any experience with it on SuSE? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org
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I've tryed Ximian with SuSE 7.2, it was working very well but the problem i get is at the Ximian architecture of Ximian is not 100% compatible with SuSE and that, even i you choose the right distribution when installing Ximian. With SuSE 8.0 and the improvment of Yast, i see not really what advantage can be made with Ximian even if Ximian is a great program. James Ogley wrote:
My experience (and this is kind of what inspired www.usr-local-bin.org) is that using Ximian GNOME on SuSE is a right pain in the proverbial, especially when it comes to doing distro upgrades.
They install things (most annoyingly libraries) into totally different places than the standard SuSE setup, not to mention that they name packages differently, which can cause no end of confusion when doing the afore-mentioned distro upgrade.
I've nothing against Ximian themselves, they are great hackers and all that, it's just that they have to focus on certain specific distros for building their packages, and those distros are Red Hat (and only really certain versions of that) and Debian.
What about Ximian? Has anyone have any experience with it on SuSE?
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:31:52AM -0500, Christoph Ruepprich wrote:
What about Ximian?
Has anyone have any experience with it on SuSE?
My experience with Ximian has been mixed. While their concept is good, their execution seems to be lacking at least on SuSE. The feeling I got was that SuSE is a second class citizen for Ximian. Yes, they support SuSE, but only AFTER they have supported the latest Red Hat and Mandrake releases. For example, SuSE 7.3 came out in October 2001, Red Hat 7.2 came out around December, 2001. Guess which one was supported first on Ximian? Not SuSE. But I understand they have to choose their priorities. My real problem with Ximian is that it takes over all your Gnome libraries. You can't go back later and uninstall Ximian to get your plain Gnome configuration back. You also can't upgrade any Gnome app from SuSE YOU because the library names have changed. Ximian is a one way street as far as Gnome apps go. Despite all that, I have friends who run and love Ximian (on Red Hat). Once again, personal preference is the ultimate judge here. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Right behind you, I see the millions Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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