Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back
On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +0000, Cam Hutchison wrote:
> > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried
> > xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components.
> >
> > I don't like any of it.
> >
> > What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I
> > wanted it, and there was nothing wrong with it.
> >
> > Is there any way to get this back, while still using Debian? I've been
> > using Debian (sid) a long time and I'm not changing distros.
> >
> > Are the debian patches for the last of the GNOME 2 releases still
> > available? Can I build my own packages?
>
> Nowadays, there is no way to get GNOME2 back as it was.
>
> No way, but not just for Debian but any other linux distributions (the
> last release of OpenBSD featured GNOME 2.32.2, though). Anyway, more
> sooner than later GNOME2 will be completely dropped from upstream.
>
There is always Squeeze, aka Debian stable.
--
Peace,
Greg
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