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#1 2005-03-05 20:01:54
- kakabaratruskia
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Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
Shouldn't it be in unstable, rather than testing?
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#2 2005-03-05 22:03:02
- jp_fielding
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
i've been using it since it was put there, seems stable, just not widely tested :-)
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#3 2005-03-05 22:54:18
- oscar
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
Latest time I tried gnome 2.9, it crashed and trashed my KDE 
To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password.
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#4 2005-03-05 23:43:49
- iphitus
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
Latest time I tried gnome 2.9, it crashed and trashed my KDE
Wooohoooo! World domination is beginning!
I hail our new GNOME overlords.
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#5 2005-03-06 00:35:46
- jp_fielding
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
the crash is bad, but yeah, it's supposed to go in and kick kde's ass, that one's first on the feature list
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#6 2005-03-06 01:14:58
- contrasutra
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
I don't think GNOME 2.9 was really meant to be in the repos in any official way. Rather, the developers put GNOME 2.9 in TESTING so they could deal with any packaging changes for 2.10. So when 2.10 comes out, all they'll have to do is up the version number. All the changes will have been made/tested.
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#7 2005-03-06 03:49:06
- Cam
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
I've installed 2.9 on a friends machine and he hasn't complained to me about anything so I'm assuming all is good.
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#8 2005-03-06 09:45:40
- sorcerer
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
no problems with 2.9 here either.....running it on 2 machines
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#9 2005-03-06 23:36:37
- JGC
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Re: Why is gnome 2.9 in testing?
Well, the stable C++ bindings have been released, now waiting for the stable desktop release. The gnome team starts rolling tarballs tomorrow, which will get packaged into testing. When everything is in place and everything works, we hope to have gnome 2.10 in current/extra near the end of the week.
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