On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:16:47 -0400, B1ll Gat3s wrote:
Just because it's no longer available at the same time as the OS with a
one-stop shop doesn't mean it's impossible to get and install it,
period, you know.
Maybe, maybe not.
I've read, from more than one source, that G2 will no longer work on
Ubuntu, hence its removal though admittedly this also has a lot to do
with the Ubuntu folks deciding they hated G3 and going off down the Unify
track: maybe they've decided that Unify is now stable enough that
alternatives aren't needed.
With F16 Fedora moves to Kernel 3.x and completes its transition from
using System V init to control boot-up and services to using systemd. As
a result systemctl replaces 'service'. This in turn means that the daemon
scripts in /etc/init.d become toast and are replaced by systemd service
unit definitions. With G2 no longer being maintained (not that gnome.org
was doing much to support it for the last year or two) and the relatively
large number of fundamental changes going into F16 I wouldn't be
surprised if it stops working under F16 too. At a minimum, a lot of stuff
in the 'System' menu won't work any more.
GUI. I have heard of Gnome 1 2 3, KDE, X-Windows, Xfce, Unify