[ale] BlueCurve cure?

[Stephen F Nicholas]

Drew,
I agree with you on Rh 7.2 .  However as much we like 7.2, its EOL is at
the end of this year (according to the RH press releases), and we'll be
forced to upgrade :-(

Steve

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

> I have found that if you install RedHat 7.2 and then use up2date, you can get 
> upgraded packages and keep the desktop. IMHO, upgraded RedHat 7.2 is faster, 
> and more stable than 8.0. This technique will probably work with 7.3
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:16 pm, Alexander Barton wrote:
> > So, I finally upgraded from RedHat 7.3 to 8.0.  I absolutely cannot
> > stand the new dumb-downed BlueCurve desktop.  I have a looong rant about
> > everything that's wrong and unfixable with BlueCurve, but I'll spare you.
> >
> > I want my old GNOME desktop back like it was in 7.3.  RedHat's
> > documentation mentions setting the desktop in /etc/sysconfig/desktop,
> > but it looks as if BlueCurve *is* the GNOME desktop in 8.0.  Is there an
> > easy way to go back?  Perhaps some theme or configuration file
> > somewhere?  Help!
> >
> > At this point, I'm about ready to resinstall 7.3 and then manually
> > upgrade, package by package, form all the non-GNOME rpms in 8.0.
> >
> > Perhaps it's time to drop RedHat and investigate Mandrake or Debian?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alexander
> >
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> Drew Brown
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