[ale] Ximian

[John Wells]

My experience with Ximian was that it used a rather large amount of your
system resources without providing any *really* useful benefit.  Of course,
I haven't tried evolution, so it may be worth it.

Be forwarned:  uninstalling it is a pain in the a**, because it is actually
a full gnome distribution and not merely an enhancement.

Good luck.

John

---------  Original message --------
From: Eater <admin at shaolinuxtemple.org>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] Ximian
Date: 04-23-02 13:25

> Something I wanted to mention at the Kennesaw meeting, but forgot about...

I've been considering migrating from KDE to the Ximian desktop.  I've been
fairly happy with KDE, but I still experience occasional instability
problems
and enfuriating inconsistencies in the interface moving between programs.
I've been eyeballing Ximian lately as a possible solution to these problems.
I've finally resolved in my own mind that I'm not above paying for something
commercially produced, either :-)

My reservations are this:

Is Ximian truly a solution for these issues?

Are there compatibility problems between Ximian and Redhat 7.2 (and what
about 7.3?)

Will the forthcoming KDE 3.0 release provide an equal, if not better desktop
than Ximian?

I'd be eager to hear anyone shed some light on these points.  I'm also
curious if anyone has experience with commercial X servers as an alternative
to XFree86.

Cheers,
Eater
--
http://www.shaolinuxtemple.org

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