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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A grammarian's life is always in tense. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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