<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">Aloha Steve,</span></p>

<pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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.</span></pre>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">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. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><br>
A) when does Gnome3 officially release?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">GNOME 3 was released on 6th April 2011 and is
looking like a target for multiple screen sizes, tablets, and netbooks.<br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">B) length of time until it appears in an official
Debian release. <br></span></p>

<pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Unknown currently Debian lists it as experimental, with a binary tag of: Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:03:31 +0000</span></pre><pre>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Source: gnome-shell</span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Binary: gnome-shell</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Architecture: source i386</span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Version: 3.0.0.2-1</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Maintainer: Raphaël Hertzog  <br></span><a href="mailto:hertzog%40debian.org">hertzog@debian.org</a><br></pre><pre><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Distribution: experimental</span></pre>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Urgency: low  <Its going to be a long time !<br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">C) how much speed and memory will a PCclone require
for Debian with<br>
Gnome3? (i.e., do I have to replace<br>
my antiquated system?)<br>
But then, *NOONE* knows THESE!!] Yeah that is a memory flame war about to
start. It will slow down your old dust<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>bunny box a lot. If it’s really old why do you need a desktop? Use CLI
and Lynx.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">I would suggest looking at the fedora test and bug
reports in a handy table layout for graphics card tests. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-22_Nouveau</a><br>

<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-23_Radeon</a><br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-24_Intel</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">Aloha.  XD<br>
-Ron</span></p>