Karanbir Singh wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Spike Turner wrote: >>> Why not run another distro with the latest and greatest Gnome or Kde >>> if that is what you want? Trying to upgrade a CentOS box will mean >>> you have something else. Its doomed to failure >> >> fwiw, a garnome build normally works fine anywhere. > > I just got my head kicked in offlist by someone who tried this.... OUCH! > so I want to elaborate a bit : It is always the case of: "do you want 25 words or the answer"? Many of us, in our area of expertise can get a little too quick and short with answers, or just too much for the common person. > while garnome builds do work fine, they work fine only for the stuff > that you build with it, pretty much everything else you expect to work > with some level of integration into the gnome environment will break, > almost certainly. So dont expect for the entire 'distro' to stay > 'together' post gnome-update. And thus I stay with what is built for me. Karanbir, Thanks for everything you do for all of us!