RE: Desktop 2 and Suse 9.1 Professional

Thank you.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gordon [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 1:44 PM
To: Charles W. Stevenson
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: [Users] Desktop 2 and Suse 9.1 Professional


On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:11 -0700, Charles W. Stevenson wrote:
> 
> I originally started out with Suse desktop 1.0 - but even after paying 
> $99 to Ximian for red carpet service, never got Desktop 2 to work.  I 
> just purchased Suse 9.1 professional from amazon.com and, I'm trying 
> to install Desktop 2 on 9.1- The automated (black box) Ximian 
> installer just gets 1/2 way through the install and says that the 
> target distribution is unknown - and all you can do is cancel.
> 
> My real question, after buying all this software - does any of it 
> work?

SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional is based on Gnome 2.4.  XD2 is based on Gnome
2.2.  XD2 isn't supported on 9.1, since it would effectively be a downgrade.

OTOH, Gnome in SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional includes a fair number of patches
from XD2 (applied to the newer Gnome source) and is consequently already
significantly Ximianized, even if it's not obvious from the branding.  9.1
also comes with the current stable version of Evolution.

Effectively, there's nothing more that SUSE Linux 9.1 Professional users
need to download from Ximian.  To a far greater extent than was previously
the case, it's already there in the OS install.

-Mark Gordon