I've been tinkering around with Suse 9.3 for a few days, and I'm really impressed overall. I'd like to understand YAST a bit more (do gconf and YAST get along?),
Well, YaST is your system config tool, and GConf handles personal GNOME settings, it's like asking what the result of the last New York Yankees vs Manchester United match was.
implement apt-get,
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/
improve or customize the Gnome desktop.
GNOME is 9.3 pretty well rocks hard, I think the quality of SuSE's GNOME install this time around is borne out by the small number of packages I've had to replace - the only replacement rather than new package or upgrade is gnome-session, and that was to sort out the braindead hard-coding of starting suseplugger and susewatcher at login.
Novell is really interested in delivering a solid product rather than using it as an experimental launching pad for another product.
Well, I'm currently downloading SuSE's 2.11.x packages, and prior to that I had no problem in building the latest GARNOME release, which is pretty forward looking. But, you talk as if being stable and solid is a bad thing. I bet that the packagers of these packages will have been as rigorous about them as any other, even though they are stated to be beta code.
When I began using Suse 9.3, I was a little disappointed by Suse's implementation of Gnome. It "appears" that much effort has gone into KDE (and it shows), but less into Gnome.
If you knew the sheer number of SuSE-specific patches, you wouldn't say that. Also, there's a very good reason why the default Panel configuration (for example) broadly matches the default GNOME one, and that's that the GNOME team have got it right.
Anyway, back to the point of this email. I obviously can customize my Gnome desktop, but before I continue to do so, I'd like to hear from other Suse Gnome users out there who can give me their impressions about working with Gnome in Suse? I'd be interested in hearing any perspectives about Gnome/Suse that you may have.
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