Why is gnome better? RE: [Sussex] Promoting SLUG

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Wed Jun 30 11:50:24 UTC 2004


Gavin / Geoff

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:36:33AM +0100, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> If you're using GNOME on debian then you're a major release behind the
> rest of the world AFAIK I know (correct me if I'm wrong) Woody still had
> GNOME 1.4.  Most over distros now come with GNOME 2.6 which is like
> comparing twm and enlightenment!   BTW the fish is _not_ there by
> default and has not been there for a long time.

Debian sarge (Testing) has GNOME 2.6.1 in it.  It's what I'm running.  I've
been tracking sarge for almost a year now so far without issue - can't be
that many release critical bugs left.

Steve D




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