Aloha Steve, I like Gnome2 and I always will. But I have the hardware and I’m changing with the times. If certain graphics cards aren't found on boot-up, it defaults to a gnome-panel + metacity. If you have a graphics card gnome3 will use it, or if no driver for the card is found you have to install it yourself. A) when does Gnome3 officially release? GNOME 3 was released on 6th April 2011 and is looking like a target for multiple screen sizes, tablets, and netbooks. B) length of time until it appears in an official Debian release. Unknown currently Debian lists it as experimental, with a binary tag of: Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:03:31 +0000 Source: gnome-shell Binary: gnome-shell Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.0.0.2-1 Maintainer: Raphaël Hertzog hertzog at debian.org Distribution: experimental Urgency: low <Its going to be a long time ! C) how much speed and memory will a PCclone require for Debian with Gnome3? (i.e., do I have to replace my antiquated system?) But then, *NOONE* knows THESE!!] Yeah that is a memory flame war about to start. It will slow down your old dust bunny box a lot. If it’s really old why do you need a desktop? Use CLI and Lynx. I would suggest looking at the fedora test and bug reports in a handy table layout for graphics card tests. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel Aloha. XD -Ron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110430/f91c8449/attachment.html>