GNOME 2.4 in Cambridge

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Fri Aug 8 18:56:37 UTC 2003


On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:28:25PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: 
> > Out of curiosity - will the move to gnome 2.4 from 2.2 be relatively
> > clean?
> > 
> > How many config files will break?
> 
> The stated objective with GNOME is that if you have an NFS home
> directory used by 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, and 2.8 systems then everything
> still works. "Works" meaning nothing gets confused; it's possible 
> you have have to configure something twice, for different GNOME
> versions, but the two configurations should coexist.

For those of us with NFS home dirs, is GNOME 2.4 supposed to work on two
different machines at the same time off the same home dir? That, to me,
would be the more useful objective....

later,
chris





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