Some brief notes about the FAQ. The GNOME FAQ version 1.0.7 came out in late 1999. It was copyrighted to Todd Lewis, Gleef (David Zoll), Miguel de Icaza and Rasaki Bidem Bolante Temidire. It was released under the GNU GPL. It's still in CVS if anyone prefers it to this. Parts of it needed updating and augmenting, but it proved impossible to contact any of the copyright holders to let them know other than Miguel. Rather than mutilate their work beyond what they might have expected, both in the content and in the DocBook used, I (Telsa) simply started over, and used the GNU Free Documentation Licence because it was now out and the Gnome Documentation Project likes it. The current maintainer is actually Julian ("x-virge") Missig. If you have suggestions for the FAQ, whether they are more questions, better answers, typo corrections or URL updates, please send them to gnomefaq@gnu.org. Note that this is not a GNOME support address. It's an address which redirects to a number of people. The people reading it cannot respond to individual questions, especially when they're already answered in the FAQ. New answers and updates to what's currently in the FAQ would be particularly appreciated. Since most of the FAQ people use Red Hat or Debian, answers which apply to other Linux distros, to *BSD, or other UNIXes would be particularly appreciated. You can now also use the new Gnome bug tracker for the FAQ: it is in the product gnome-user-docs and the component is of course user-faq. In no particular order, thanks to: Mark Crichton for his up-to-date it works for me! compilation order. Dave Mason for his DocBook knowledge. Georg Lebl for providing answers to icon problems and misc compilation issues. Jacob Berkman for his knowledge of every distribution of Linux under the sun and what prefixes they like. LotR of #gnome for pointing out you shouldn't always be using prefixes anyway :) Kenny Grauke for Debian fact-checking. Dan Muet for impeccable proof-reading and supplying more questions and the shmget answer just when I thought I was done. Karl Eichwalder for SuSE details. Dave Camp for knowing how to explain ORBit and correcting package names. Kevin Knerr for Slackware resources. Eric Baudais for Debian comments and "how to install GNOME in your home directory without destroying the working version". Brett Castleberry for linuxconf and booting straight into GNOME. Robert Soros for sawfish and panel fixes. Fabien Penso for the somelist site. Lee Bradshaw and Mike Touloumtzis for apt/dpkg expansion. Adam Sampson for the mention of FVWM2's 2.3 version being GNOME-compliant. Andrew Mobbs for the right place to ask for FreeBSD help. Tet, Kevin Lyda and others for a lot of proprietary X-server answers which I didn't know and the use of which servers I should point out that the GNOME project, as a free software project, doesn't encourage. All the people who pointed out that I wrote X-server when I meant client. Ouch. John Kodis for a better description of X. Sven Wallman for the location of the Berkeley db patch. Devin Carraway for why you need the shift key to page up/down. Paul Jenner for Solaris install prefixes Ken Treimann for pointing out the dead OS/2 link. Contributors I have lost credits for. I hope there aren't any. But just in case :) All the people who answered questions when I originally asked them, and then answered again when I forgot, on mailing lists, on IRC, and at various shows.