the temptations of Gnome University

bent-stick · 2012-10-29 15:10:35

so, despite my growing fondness for CrunchBang+OpenBox, i've been tempted by the recent announcements for gnome university (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeUniversity). i'm torn, in that i feel i have no need right now to use anything other than CB+OB, but i'm intrigued by the idea of learning more C specifically for interface development, and more specifically for the possibility of actually contributing to Linux in some way more significant than my fanboy devotion... so i've been sidetracked by looking for a distro using pure Gnome (it seems like heresy to me to make CB & Gnome live together)...

does anyone happen to know, perhaps, of anything else like Gnome University for one attracted to the more minimalist and lightweight?

brontosaurusrex · 2012-10-29 15:17:32

My lastest user experiment with gnome shell was:

- virtualbox, plain debian wheezy
- log in as gnome (crashed)
- log in as ob, fix all the vm guest drivers
- log in as gnome - working
- adding few extensions > crash
reload
- your extensions had been disabled, happy computing
(The default shell is useless to me)

Just my 0.1 cents

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el_koraco · 2012-10-29 15:21:22

brontosaurusrex wrote:

My lastest user experiment with gnome shell was:
- virtualbox, plain debian wheezy

There you go.

snowpine · 2012-10-29 15:29:21

Gnome 3 rocks, I can recommend it without hesitation, it combines the best of Gnome 2 and Unity, a win in my book!

brontosaurusrex · 2012-10-29 16:19:24

el_koraco wrote:

brontosaurusrex wrote:
My lastest user experiment with gnome shell was:
- virtualbox, plain debian wheezy
There you go.

what do you mean?

el_koraco · 2012-10-29 16:37:32

Well, Gnome 3 doesn't have a great track record for virtualization. It would probably work better with KVM or VMWare than Virtualbox, but it definitely doesn't have similar problems on raw hardware. I've only crashed it with horrible abuse.

brontosaurusrex · 2012-10-29 16:46:37

el_koraco wrote:

Well, Gnome 3 doesn't have a great track record for virtualization. It would probably work better with KVM or VMWare than Virtualbox, but it definitely doesn't have similar problems on raw hardware. I've only crashed it with horrible abuse.

ok, good to know smile

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