It would appear that Novell have launched a new version of Ximian Dektop with support for SuSE 9.0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34753.html http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/01/pr04001.html |PROVO, Utah - Jan. 06, 2004 - - Novell today announced that Ximian® Desktop |2, the leading enterprise Linux desktop, now supports the latest editions of |Linux client operating environment software from SUSE LINUX, a leading |provider of Linux software and services. With this release, Novell's Ximian |Desktop now supports SUSE* LINUX Desktop and SUSE LINUX 9.0. The update also |includes the Ximian Edition of OpenOffice.org 1.1, GAIM instant messenger |client and updated Ximian Red Carpet™ 2.0 configuration management client |software. | Has anyone tried this new version yet??? I'm not brave enough to go and risk screwing up this install, the last time I tried Ximian, I ended up having to do a complete re-install. Paul Cooke
I tried installing it, but it came up with a controlcenter rpm conflict. Art Paul Cooke wrote:
It would appear that Novell have launched a new version of Ximian Dektop with support for SuSE 9.0.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34753.html http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/01/pr04001.html |PROVO, Utah - Jan. 06, 2004 - - Novell today announced that Ximian® Desktop |2, the leading enterprise Linux desktop, now supports the latest editions of |Linux client operating environment software from SUSE LINUX, a leading |provider of Linux software and services. With this release, Novell's Ximian |Desktop now supports SUSE* LINUX Desktop and SUSE LINUX 9.0. The update also |includes the Ximian Edition of OpenOffice.org 1.1, GAIM instant messenger |client and updated Ximian Red Carpet™ 2.0 configuration management client |software. |
Has anyone tried this new version yet???
I'm not brave enough to go and risk screwing up this install, the last time I tried Ximian, I ended up having to do a complete re-install.
Paul Cooke
Art Fore, 08.01.2004 18:36:
I tried installing it, but it came up with a controlcenter rpm conflict.
Art
Paul Cooke wrote:
It would appear that Novell have launched a new version of Ximian Dektop with support for SuSE 9.0.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34753.html http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/01/pr04001.html |PROVO, Utah - Jan. 06, 2004 - - Novell today announced that Ximian® Desktop |2, the leading enterprise Linux desktop, now supports the latest editions of |Linux client operating environment software from SUSE LINUX, a leading |provider of Linux software and services. With this release, Novell's Ximian |Desktop now supports SUSE* LINUX Desktop and SUSE LINUX 9.0. The update also |includes the Ximian Edition of OpenOffice.org 1.1, GAIM instant messenger |client and updated Ximian Red Carpet™ 2.0 configuration management client |software. |
Has anyone tried this new version yet???
I'm not brave enough to go and risk screwing up this install, the last time I tried Ximian, I ended up having to do a complete re-install.
Paul Cooke
Look at the package list and you will see, that most of them are much older than ULB/SuSE ones. And they are making updates very rarely. I see no sense of using it. ain
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It would appear that Novell have launched a new version of Ximian Dektop with support for SuSE 9.0.
Has anyone tried this new version yet???
I'm not brave enough to go and risk screwing up this install, the last time I tried Ximian, I ended up having to do a complete re-install.
I gave it a try yesterday evening without any succeed. After downloading and installing the basic Ximian Desktop 2 of 139 MB, SuSE9/KDE hung, just before finishing install of the last package. I had to restart my PC, had to boot in failsafe mode and then reboot again, before I was able to login to KDE. The only thing I could see to Ximian, was the installer which was ready for a new download, but I said NO thank to a new try, at least for now. Maybe I also have to re-install SuSE9 again(?), because several packages looked to be removed and replaced. Among others I got an older tsclient than the update install I had made. Terje J. Hanssen
Paul Cooke wrote:
It would appear that Novell have launched a new version of Ximian Dektop with support for SuSE 9.0.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34753.html http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/01/pr04001.html |PROVO, Utah - Jan. 06, 2004 - - Novell today announced that Ximian® Desktop |2, the leading enterprise Linux desktop, now supports the latest editions of |Linux client operating environment software from SUSE LINUX, a leading |provider of Linux software and services. With this release, Novell's Ximian |Desktop now supports SUSE* LINUX Desktop and SUSE LINUX 9.0. The update also |includes the Ximian Edition of OpenOffice.org 1.1, GAIM instant messenger |client and updated Ximian Red Carpet™ 2.0 configuration management client |software. |
Has anyone tried this new version yet???
I'm not brave enough to go and risk screwing up this install, the last time I tried Ximian, I ended up having to do a complete re-install.
Paul Cooke
I installed it on a gnome-only version of SuSE on a separate partition to give it a try and it works OK. It was around 290Mbyte. However I agree with one of the other comments in that from my brief trial, I don't see a huge advantage as to why you would want to use it over the version og gnome that came with SuSE 9.0 - although I like its update program. With the pay version you get extra fronts and that may pick things up a little, other than that I don't know and can't see either. I installed it with my main SuSE OS prior to using a separate partition and it messed up my KDE desktop by sort of joining both together. I also had difficulty in logging out of ximian when gnome-panel kept freezing for 1-2 minutes. Nev Nev
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