Re: Helix debian packages
>>>>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:22:30 +0200 (CEST), Marcus Crafter <crafterm@dresdnerbank.de> said:
Marcus> Hi Martin, On 20 Oct 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> I hear "Helix is so much better than Debian's" - what is the
>> difference exactly? They use the same source.
Marcus> Well, I can't tell you what all the differences were -
Marcus> only that when I installed Helix, lots of things had
Marcus> changed in the area of the GNOME configuration tool
Marcus> (extra panels with more options), sawmill which later
Marcus> became sawfish, gdm, gkt-themes, etc.
Marcus> Since then, I haven't switched back.
So basically you are comparing current helix gnome packages to debian
gnome packages from the time period when potato wasn't still released
(and I as a gnome maintainer wasn't producing new packages because I
still needed to easily build/bug fix potato packages).
That seems a fair comparison.
Jim
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