Why does the new 10.1 release not contain Gnome 2.8? This has been
released december 2004.

I find it quite disappointing that the Gnome packages are still the same
as of june 2004. Therefore I will not upgrade.

On 2005-02-09, Peter <emphroon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why does the new 10.1 release not contain Gnome 2.8? This has been
> released december 2004.
>
> I find it quite disappointing that the Gnome packages are still the same
> as of june 2004. Therefore I will not upgrade.

I get the feeling GNOME's days are numbered in Slackware.

There's also this in the changelog:

Apparently gftp doesn't require any of the GNOME libraries. I've heard
that AbiWord can also be built so that it does not require GNOME
libraries but haven't had much luck getting it to work that way. Does
anyone know how to do that? How about a GNOMEless gnumeric (I suspect
that's not possible, but...)?

*gulp*

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:28:01 +0100, Peter wrote:

> Why does the new 10.1 release not contain Gnome 2.8? This has been
> released december 2004.
>
> I find it quite disappointing that the Gnome packages are still the same
> as of june 2004. Therefore I will not upgrade.

I believe Pat has said that he will not support Gnome any further. I
would expect that the next release of Slack (11.0?) will not have Gnome at
all.

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Try www.dropline.net.

Tis true, I don't think Pat will be supporting gnome for much longer.
Dropline has got a pretty good thing going with their own version of
gnome designed for slackware. I've been using it for a couple of years
and have never had any problems.

http://www.dropline.net/gnome/

Thanks everybody for your answers. I will give Dropline a try. In the
meantime I found that Gnome 2.8.2 was tested with the kernel 2.6 series
and that the results with 2.4 may vary. Hm, if I want to use kernel
2.4.29 I guess I end up with XFCE....

Peter Stickney wrote:
> Tis true, I don't think Pat will be supporting gnome for much longer.
> Dropline has got a pretty good thing going with their own version of
> gnome designed for slackware. I've been using it for a couple of years
> and have never had any problems.
>
> http://www.dropline.net/gnome/
>

Peter,

In order to have automounting working in Gnome 2.8, you need a 2.6
kernel. I've been running a stock Slackware 2.6.7 kernel with Slackware
10 and Dropline Gnome for a few months now and all is well. You can use
a 2.4 kernel with Dropline Gnome 2.8, you just won't have automount
working. You'll also have to run dropline-installer with the --force
option, but all reports are that it works fine. There is a dropline
wiki with a HOWTO on installing a 2.6 kernel from slackware
(installpkg; no compiling required), and the Dropline crew are friendly
and helpful on the forums. Good Luck.

In <1107968798.392621.81460@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups. com>, reclusive
monkey wrote:

> Peter,
>
> In order to have automounting working in Gnome 2.8, you need a 2.6
> kernel. I've been running a stock Slackware 2.6.7 kernel with Slackware
> 10 and Dropline Gnome for a few months now and all is well.

More info is at the dropline forums. Unfortunately, there seem to be
problems using dropline on slack 10.1 (minor, not really specified). They
will port dropline to 10.1 only after gnome 2.10 is out, which is expected
in about 1 month. They say, you can try with the --force option, and
things should (mostly) work....

Good luck

Franz

--
Franz M. Sauerzopf
Atominstitut, TU Wien

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:28:37 +0100, Peter wrote:

> Thanks everybody for your answers. I will give Dropline a try. In the
> meantime I found that Gnome 2.8.2 was tested with the kernel 2.6 series
> and that the results with 2.4 may vary. Hm, if I want to use kernel
> 2.4.29 I guess I end up with XFCE....

Or KDE, or Gnome 2.6, or.... there are other choices....

There is not that much difference between Gnome 2.6.x and Gnome 2.8.x

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If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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reclusive monkey wrote:
> Try www.dropline.net.
>

I believe that the maintainer of dropline is dropping out
and is looking for a successor.

It seems to me that if Slackware drops a major package like
Gnome, Slackware is going to drop way down in the pecking
order. Just my opinion.