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The task of the GNOME Installation Guide
has been changed.
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The announced GNOME 2.0 system is nothing more than a new
(eyecandy) GNOME 2.0 Desktop Environment.
It's an intention of the GNOME 2.0 developer not to wait
until all or at least the main GNOME applications have been ported
before they offer GNOME 2.0. Because only a very few applications
have already been ported the GNOME 2.0 (desktop system)
can't sensefully be used without all the fine GNOME 1.4.1 applications.
(For details read the initial
review and the following
discussion)
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The required installation of a twin system (GNOME-2.0 and
some GNOME-1.4.1 basic libraries) doesn't claim
to many recources.
The pure (not striped) GNOME-2.0 desktop system uses
384 mb of the harddisk.
An enriching GNOME-1.4.1 application system which offers most
important applications uses 377 mb. The libraries of that
enriching twin system use only 146 mb. The additional
expenditure of at most 200 mb can be accecpted with
respect to the size of modern harddisks.
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For the moment it's not nescessary
to upgrade onto GNOME-2.0 if you only wan't to have
a fine working environment.
Because you would use the same GNOME-1.0 applications
if you upgrade onto GNOME 2.0 you must have other
causes than using better software.
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To upgrade or not to upgrade is a question
of your memory recources
After having started the pure (not striped) GNOME-2.0
desktop system the new system-monitor tells us that
the GNOME 2.0 system alone uses 71.2 mb memory.
After having started the pure (not striped) GNOME-1.4.1
desktop system the same system-monitor tells us that
the GNOME 1.4.1 system alone uses 27.5 mb memory.
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