On 11/8/05, Allen
Like Processor and RAM.... I don't care which Desktop they go to, I was merely pointing out language CAN be faster than another.
Yes, that is true, but in the context of this thread it is not a real factor. A person stated that GNOME should be slower than KDE because it is written in C.
When one install GNOME on SUSE you don't install it from source, so how is this relevant?
Uhhhh the same way that bringin up Gentoo in this is?
No. I brought Gentoo up, because when you mentioned Slackware it sounded as if you indicated that install from source and it does not, Gentoo does. But I guess you mentioned Slackware because the Slackware people find GNOME difficult to compile and thus make it available for installation under Slackware.
By the way, Gentoo is a real install-from-source distro and they use GNOME. Slackware does not install from source, they use pre-compiled binaries in tar.gz archives.
So is ROCK Linux. What is the point? Gentoo is so fast yet it slows so badly because someone is compiling Open office in the background..... Where is the point?
Sorry, I misinterpreted your previous mention of Slackware. See above.
The reason I brought up Slackware was because it was an example of someone not using Gnome anymore because they seem to make ti as hard as possible to add to a distro.
I've talked with Pat Multiple times and putting Gnome in a distro isn't so easy as it seems. Dropline Gnome is probably a better option anyway. and it's .tgz, like BSD, there is a slight difference form tar.gz which is source.
Fortunately there are people at SUSE and outside SUSE like James Ogley who do build rpm packages of GNOME for SUSE. I have been using Jame's version of GNOME for SUSE since SuSE 8.x. These days the GNOME that comes with SUSE is up to date, so I can just use this. But, to get back to the thread: How is the fact that GNOME is difficult to build affect installing GNOME on SUSE from rpms? The people who produce the rpms have the problems, not the end user. If it was such a problem for the SUSE people to build GNOME, then why would they standardise their commercial offerings on GNOME? -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~