Hey all, Lots of people have been asking me if they should try out GNOME 2.0... I'm finding it very hard to say no to that. ;-) It's worth trying out, and definitely worth testing and sending bug reports.
Acknowledging that GNOME is a total bastard to build from source manually, a bunch of GNOMEy people have created build scripts to help out. Two of them build directly from CVS: jhbuild (by .au hacker and raving Python loonie, James Henstridge) and the vicious-build-scripts (by goat-worshipping, ass-signing George Lebl). GARNOME, on the other hand, builds from the released beta and snapshot tarballs, and is more of a distribution than a build script. I test it pretty thoroughly, so it should build and work pretty well. GARNOME is based on the GAR ports system by Nick Moffitt (which is quite like the BSD ports system, only it's based on GNU tools, and is quite a bit smaller). You can download it, and read the very useful documentation on the website: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ I'm very interested to hear of builds on non-Linux, non-Intel machines. We have users running it on AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris, and it was compiled on an 8 way Intel box a couple of weeks ago. ;-) Please tell me what you think of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop, too! - Jeff -- "GNOME, launched specifically to counter a threat to our freedom, is the free software project par excellence." - Richard Stallman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
