Facts and Minds
  • The task of the GNOME Installation Guide has been changed.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.