Update on this one... Many thanks for all the replies on and off-list. I have been taking them on-board but I've been up to my neck in work.
Okay, so I'm still on E16.7 but it's working really well and I have evidence working really nicely too so that's where I'm staying right now. I have since learnt that these days, what with things like urpmi rpm's "ought" to work on most RPM based ditributions, so I'm not overly fussed that I used SUSE rpm's as opposed to Mandrake ones. Hell, they worked afterall. I did however grab a copy of SUSE 9.2 anyway since I've been curious about it for a long time so I rescued the HDD from the old laptop and have installed SUSE on there. Wow! How great is it to have a distro that just WORKS out of the box?? It now get's my vote :) Anyway, I digress. This now gives me a path to be able to install and try out E17 over the coming weeks or months (as work permits) without it impacting my real installation and at such point as I have a week spare I'm going to go over it all changing to SUSE, installing Oracle 9.2 and E17. To very quickly cover the remaining couple of points. Quite a few people suggested doing things with file managers that involved KDE or Gnome apps. The point was though that I didn't even want to install KDE or Gnome. At the moment I do have Gnome installed since I wasn't sure how much of the libraries were needed, but ultimately, if I don't need it, then I don't want it. As I said, I'm fed up with my OS consuming 3+GB when I need every byte I can get for the GB's of data processing I have to program for. Cross-compiling: Sadly, don't have access to an actual AIX box. Only the live boxes that I can't develop on. Have to develop etc under linux then just test and implement on live. We have two stages of "live". Neither of them have compilers unfortunately. This also means neither of them have the stubs that I need for cross-compiling (iirc anyway). Anyway, getting OT. Looking forward to getting some time to try out E17. It really does look sweet :) Martin. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
