Confused with all the gnomes

[bdg1983]

I haven't been using gnome for a long time and now I keep hearing about helix and ximian gnome... now what are these and how do they differ from the "original" gnome?? :confused:

[Aikidoka]

Helixcode gnome is what's known as Ximian gnome. Basically, Ximian gnome is a "distribution" of gnome. They are the ones developing Red Carpet, Evolution, Gnumeric and a couple of other packages to improve on what the Gnome project has done. I hope that makes sense.

[Molecule Man]

More precisely, Ximian (formerly Helix Code) is a for profit company founded by Miguel de Icaza, one of the primary developers for GNOME.

They have a nifty update service (similiar to apt) if your distro is supported. More can be found at www.ximian.com (http://www.ximian.com)

[forrest]

but i _have_ apt :)

[bdg1983]

Thanks for the info, guys. That cleared things a lot. :)

I also have apt! :D

[Tyr-7BE]

Ximian is slick :D

[Molecule Man]

If you do have apt, then you can still go to Ximian (http://www.ximian.com) to add them to your apt list.