[Novalug] Novel/Ximian Red Carpet

[Jeff Stoner]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, gregory pryzby wrote:

>> I'm with Greg on this.  ZMD is from the devil.
>
> To be clear, the concept is excellent, however the implementation and
> language (mono) isn't in my NOT so humble opinion.
>
> it STARTED as red carpet (rug command works still), but well, it is a
> long story

I had a love/hate relationship with Red Carpet. I loved it when I freshly 
installed Redhat 7.2. I installed the Ximian Desktop...used Red Carpet. It 
was fantastic.

Until I realized Red Carpet replaced many Redhat RPMs with their own 
branded RPMs. My system got out of sync with the Redhat updates and, 
worse, broke dependencies (XFree86-ximian is not the same as XFree86).

Luckily, this was on my desktop and not the servers I was managing.

Good idea. Bad implementation.

--Jeff

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