Ha, this desktop is running Fedora 17, with Gnome 3, albeit in the tuned down mode that makes it try to look more like Gnome 2.

When I visit that page it tells me right at the top of the page

"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information."

In theory I can run some other windowing manager such as KDE, which I might actually find I like better since I have never liked Gnome 3.

But in practice I have been trying to get all my machines as raw out of the box standard as possible, so as to minimise the amount of setup needed each time I set up a new box and so the live boot disks work just like the ones that have the O/S installed to hard disk.

It is quite annoying that they insist on coming out of the box broken by design.

I would almost be tempted to figure I should move to Ubuntu since that seems to be the new standard "everyone" is using, but I hear that now comes totally infested with spyware by design so that is right out.

So far none of the extensions packages mentioned seem to exist for Fedora, maybe they just bundle them differently into differently named packages I am not sure yet. I need to get my country house re-wired and get out there, then I will have space and electricity to screw around with trying to find a usable setup to switch all my machines over to.

What is going on with the checksums thing that is going to break all existing assets, server-IDs, nyms, accounts and so on? I do not think setting Grandma up for having to do a big migration of all her nyms and accounts and so on is a good idea, if that stuff has to go in it should probably go right into Grandma's client from the start else we are just setting her up for a huge amount of work she will end up having to do to upgrade to the next version at some point, work that probably isn't really the kind of stuff we should expect Grandmas to do...

-MarkM-