[ale] BlueCurve cure?

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Nooooooooooo!

Drew

On Saturday 08 February 2003 10:28 pm, Stephen F Nicholas wrote:
> 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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