[CLUE-Tech] (In)Stability of X?

[Michael J. Hammel]

Thus spoke Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
> Are you using Nautilus? I don't really use GNOME, but I seem to
> recall having some issues with Nautilus when I did a review of Ximian
> GNOME a few months back.

I disabled Nautilus on my system.  The alpha blending it did (to make
antialiased displays) slowed my machine to a crawl.

> I did a quick search on Google and it seems you're not the only one
> experiencing lockups with RH 7.2/GNOME -- but I couldn't find any
> definitive cause in any of the posts that I ran across.

I run RH 7.2 and Ximian without problem.  It may be a specific hardware
config causing problems.

> I don't want to risk a flame war, but it sounds like the problem
> is GNOME. While GNOME has a lot of nifty features, it's been a little
> less than stable when I've tried to use it. About every four to six
> months I get curious and try it out for a few days -- invariably
> I end up going back to KDE.

I'm completely the opposite.  GNOME runs great for me and KDE crawls and
dies.  Fortunately, in the Linux world one has choices.
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