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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Saturday, June 14, 2003 5:01:03 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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!Downloading and installing
The XD2 directory on Ximian's [FTP] site was a little over 450Mb, so I grabbed it over a fast connection and bought it home. Unfortunately, that's not enough. You also need the ximian-evolution/ and redcarpet/ directories, but this isn't made obvious. Not a problem for those who are just doing an install off the Internet, but a black mark nonetheless.
-!!To
be completed as download progresses
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+After downloading all the rest of the directories off Ximian and completing my local mirror (a step you won't have to go through if you're installing off the web or off a CD), then the installer started downloading all the packages off my local web server. However, it also needed some newer versions of GNOME software and some Red Hat updates, which it got at a blistering 1k/s off Ximian's webserver. I guess this is why you're supposed to pay for Red Carpet Express.
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+Installation took over half an hour, even on a 1ghz+ machine. I guess replacing 444 packages isn't an easy task. Few questions - it wants to know if you want to use [GDM] (yes) and [CUPS] (yes), and warns that some functionality will
be lost if you don't
.
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+!Initial setup
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+Upon clicking OK, the installer restarted X (There was no option not to do this - so make sure you've saved anything you were working on while it installed) and dropped me into the Ximian GDM theme with its big friendly invitation to "Login".
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+Loading works much like Red Hat's Bluecurve - a KDE-like screen with icons across the bottom giving progress reports, then the now-famous Ximian layout of a Programs, Settings, Help menu across the top, and a task bar across the bottom.
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+!Desktop - Interface
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+Much like the old XD 1
.4, XD2 has a very clean menu structure - a great relief after the mess which is Red Hat's menu structure
. The Programs menu has "Applications",
