Re: Two quick questions

[Florian Steffen <Florian.Steffen@Sun.COM>]

1. Gnome is not a replacement for X, nor a Window Manager. You need both
X and a window manager (any one will work, but some, like WindowMaker or
Enlightenment, provides additional functionalities to work seamlessly
with gnome). Gnome is a desktop environment, that means that it provides
an integrated and consistent environment for the applications. As a
user, you can expect gnome to provide lot of desktop utilities (notepad,
calculator, games, clendar, etc.) and a consistent behavior and look
between applications.

2. For the kernel, there is no big differences between using .deb or
tarball sources, since there is a utility (make-kpkg) to create a binary
package from the tarball. But for other packages, no such script exists
and if you compile and install a software directly from the tarball, you
will lose all the advantages provided by the debian package manager
(easy deinstall and upgrade, or conflict resolution for example).

Florian.

David Densmore wrote:
> 
> 1. Is Gnome a window manager for X, or is it a replacement for X?
>    (or it it something else?)
> 
> 2. What is the advantage of using a kernel source package in .deb
>    format as opposed to a generic kernel source in tar.gz format?
> 
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