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Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??



This one time, at band camp, Joris Huizer said:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Just a quick question: Why is gnome 1.4 installed by default rather
> than gnome 2 ? Are there security reasons or whatever ?
> 
> Oh, and how can I install gnome 2 if there are no (serious) problems ?
> 
> Thanks :-)

I'm guessing you're using Woody.  The only real reason is the GNOME2
wasn't very stable at the time Woody released - in fact, it's barely
stable now :-).   I know that somebody is backporting it to Woody, but I
can't remember who now.  Let me look . . . ah, here it is:

Gustavo Noronha has it on his site:
deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2

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