Re: Are the experimental GNOME2 debs any good?

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:33:33 -0400
christophe barbé <christophe@cattlegrid.net> wrote:

>  The status of gnome2 in experimental is very good. I can't find a
>  good reason to keep it out of unstable other that the idea shared by
>  a few that yet another debian level would be good
>  (stable/testing/unstable/...). I use it since a few month and I am
>  very happy with it. Before that I was using gnome1 and a few gnome2
>  app (like you certainly sawfish and gnome-terminal) and my old laptop
>  was slowdown by the doubled ram requirements of having both sets of
>  library. 
> 
>  Note that gnome2 is a huge improvment over gnome1 (even if you have
>  to accept a few changes) et also note that all recently released
>  distribution use gnome2.

Here's one reason to keep it out of unstable: the most important gnome2
app doesn't work for me: Application "same-gnome" (process 8620) has
crashed due to a fatal error. (Floating point exception)