On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 08:03 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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Consider switching to OpenOffice 2.0 [betas] (natively GTK+ now I believe?), HelixPlayer (GTK+ based) with the RealPlayer libraries added (HelixPlayer is from Real, and the new RealPlayer is Helix+non-free libs).
I plan to build a CentOS-Plus version of OpenOffice 2.0 when it is released (didn't want to do it as a beta) :)
Johnny Hughes wrote:
It won't get much faster if you choose those products :)
As I mentioned, OpenOffice 2.0 and the new HelixPlayer are far more "native" in their libraries. OpenOffice 2.0 is in beta and HelixPlayer should (?) be included in FC3/RHEL4, and it's simply a matter of adding the non-free libraries which turns it into RealPlayer. I have to give Real a "thank you" for doing everything they could to make their offering to the community.
There is XFCE-4.2 that you could install instead of GNOME or KDE
Well, you typically want to install XFCE _along_with_ GNOME, so it can use GNOME components when necessary. But just have the user (as well as system for new users) default to XFCE. XFCE takes some getting used to, but it's definitely worth it for older systems.
Yum installs a lot of the GNOME and gtk2 stuff as dependencies by just installing the "XFCE-4.2" group. If harddisc space is available, a full GNOME install and switchdesk XFCE is fine too.
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With that said, I've seen no less than 5 YUM GUIs. What does everyone like?
I haven't found one that I like, but yum groupinstall is cool from the CLI :)