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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?