GNOME

I switched my main PC's desktop back to GNOME yesterday. I had been using KDE since version 3.4 was released. KDE 3.4 had a quirky post-install configuration due to an error specific just to Arch Linux's pacman. However, if you read the Wiki, like I did, the KDE 3.4 default post-install setup was OK. I'm still on GNOME 2.8 and might upgrade to 2.10 in a week or two. To avoid a flame war, I will not say which I prefer. By the way, sometimes I even use WindowMaker.

As for Arch, I am little behind on the package front. The latest pacman -Syu tells me I can grab 222 MB of updates. Right now, though, I see no reason to upgrade stuff like Open Office, alsa-utils, or nmap. I suspect a good chunk of that 222 is GNOME 2.10 and Open Office. If I do anything it will be GNOME 2.10. I usually do the whole bang about once every two months and grab everything pacman -Syu displays.

Otherwise, my main PC is just humming along. Of the several Linux distros I've used, I like Arch the best. My laptop still runs Mandrake (Community 10.1 as of now) but that's getting me flustered. 9.0 and 9.2 worked great but 10.1 has given me some problems - too many to elaborate on here. I may try Fedora Core 4 once that's out (June?) or I may even drop back to 9.2 with a minimal install then grab all the current packages from Mandrake's Cooker.

Well, this is probably boring to most of you. That's all for now.