Rick Engebretson wrote: > > I don't mind a learning curve, but unnecessary complexity should be > avoided. After downloading Ximian Gnome there were missing dependencies > and altered start scripts all over the directory map. This was supposed > to be an automatic install. > > It took me most of a day to find and repair the problems so I could get a > useful X back. /etc/rc.config, and /sbin/init.d are not obvious places to > look. Sure, you're a genius, but normal people want Linux computers, too. > [stuff deleted] I don't know what the ximian people smoked before they put together this release. I had to fix my gdm config and some startup scripts as well. After more than a year of flawless updates (from Helix), I've gotten pretty careless about running the update utility. I'll think twice from now on. Kent