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Using GNOME2 on Fedora 16

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – This projcet is for those who want to use GNOME2 on Fedora 16 (17, 18, ... when possible). For those who are happy with GNOME3, you can safely skip this one. What is GNOME2.F16? From the name it is clear that this project is for running GNOME2 on Fedora 16. It is a perl script (gnome2.build.pl) that downloads selected GNOME2 src rpm from Fedora 14, compiles and installs on Fedora 16. The end result is a mix of GNOME2 and GNOME3 on Fedora 16, with the UI (metacity, session manger, screen saver, applets, etc.) from GNOME2, and the rest from GNOME3. There are already other projects (eg. (HowTos)

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