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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