http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2008, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Sat, 17 May 2008 06:25:11 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/19706/Planet_GNOMEs_Lack_of_Love/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19706/Planet_GNOMEs_Lack_of_Love/ In November 2007, we reported on the GNOME Board Elections of 2007, where Jeff Waugh was getting serious slack flack from some people in the GNOME community. One of the complaints centred around Waugh's apparent inability to properly take care of requests to be syndicated on Planet GNOME, or other maintenance issues related to PGO. Six months later, this complaint is still valid, according to Rodney Dawes. Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News SEJeff http://www.osnews.com/story/19608/GNOME_2.22.1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19608/GNOME_2.22.1_Released/ GNOME 2.22.1 has been released. "This is the first update to GNOME 2.22. Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! A lot of work has been done in the stable branch to make it even more solid than it was." Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:53:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19554/Epiphany_Switches_to_WebKit/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19554/Epiphany_Switches_to_WebKit/ Epiphany, GNOME's web browser, will drop support for the Gecko engine, focusing on WebKit instead. "we will choose only one web engine back-end to support and concentrate our efforts on it instead of spreading our efforts to multiple back-ends and restricting us to the common features all back-ends support. This single back-end will be WebKit." Assuming this is not an April Fool's joke, that is. Seriously, we ought to just shut down teh intertubes every April 1st. It's getting out of hand. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:47:53 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News RJop http://www.osnews.com/story/19551/Review:_GNOME_2.22/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19551/Review:_GNOME_2.22/ Ars reviews GNOME 2.22, and concludes: "In version 2.22 GNOME continues to provide a high level of performance, functionality, and ease of use that contributes significantly to the viability of Linux on the desktop. Despite the numerous advances that are being made in GNOME technologies, there are still a few notable places where GNOME falls short of both open and proprietary competitors. GNOME application file dialogs, for instance, still lack basic support for file management operations such as rename and delete and don't provide support for viewing multiple file thumbnails." Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:28:54 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 46 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19467/GNOME_2.22_Released_Brings_New_Architectural_Features/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19467/GNOME_2.22_Released_Brings_New_Architectural_Features/ The GNOME development community has announced the official release of version 2.22 after six months of development. GNOME is an open-source desktop environment that supplies a complete user interface and an assortment of programs for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GNOME 2.22 includes some important new architectural features and a handful of significant new programs. Among the most important enhancements in GNOME 2.22 are the GVFS virtual file system framework, which brings improved network transparency to GNOME desktop applications, and the PolicyKit framework, which provides improved support for secure privilege elevation. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:59:01 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 52 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19461/First_Look_at_GNOME_2.22.0/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19461/First_Look_at_GNOME_2.22.0/ GNOME 2.22 isn't officially released yet, but here's a first look already. "Every six months, the GNOME team prepares a new and revolutionary release of the ever popular GNOME desktop environment. Today, we are proud to introduce you to the latest and greatest features of an 100% FREE and open source desktop. Whether you are on a Solaris machine or the latest Ubuntu distribution, GNOME is there and with every new release it makes your life... Simply Beautiful! Let's have a look at the new features of GNOME 2.22." Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:32:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 74 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News irbis http://www.osnews.com/story/19406/GNOME_2.22.0_RC_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19406/GNOME_2.22.0_RC_Released/ GNOME 2.22.0 release candidate has been released. "This is the last unstable release before 2.22.0. It's been a pretty fun ride since September. New features. Bug fixes. Translations. Documentation. Lots of bug triaging too. And we're getting ready to start again for 2.23! But before, we need to make sure 2.22.0 will be rock-solid. There's still a few days before the hard code freeze, so it's not too late to fix this last bug you're ashamed of." Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:01:29 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 22 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19394/GNOME_Announces_Program_to_Sponsor_Accessibility_Projects/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19394/GNOME_Announces_Program_to_Sponsor_Accessibility_Projects/ The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD 50000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google's Open Source Program Office, Canonical, and Novell. This is the second in a series of outreach programs coordinated and run by the GNOME Foundation. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:28:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News behdadesfahbod http://www.osnews.com/story/19343/GNOME_2.21.91_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19343/GNOME_2.21.91_Released/ GNOME 2.21.91 has been released. "This is our second beta release on our road towards GNOME 2.22.0, which will be released in March 2008. your mission is simple : Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it." Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:43:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Philipp Esselbach http://www.osnews.com/story/19233/Eight_Interesting_Improvements_in_GNOME_2.22/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19233/Eight_Interesting_Improvements_in_GNOME_2.22/ "Back in November we started sharing some of the exciting features planned for the GNOME 2.22 and 2.24 releases, and now that the first GNOME 2.22.0 Beta release is planned for later this week, we have taken another look at the packages set for inclusion and the changes that have actually been made. While nothing groundbreaking will be introduced in GNOME 2.22, this desktop environment does have some moderate changes worth noting. In this article are eight interesting packages that either have noticeable changes since GNOME 2.20 or are new to GNOME. This list isn't all-inclusive or ordered in any particular fashion, but just eight changes that had caught our attention." Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:48:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Michael Larabel http://www.osnews.com/story/19086/Flipping_the_Linux_Switch:_the_GNOME_Desktop_Environment/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19086/Flipping_the_Linux_Switch:_the_GNOME_Desktop_Environment/ There is a controversy in the Linux world. It doesn't have to do with Microsoft, or anything overtly technical. It may seem, to the outsider, the open source equivalent of the question, "Boxers or briefs?" But it's much more serious than that. More here. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:50:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Gnome 145 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19078/GNOME_2.21.4_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19078/GNOME_2.21.4_Released/ The GNOME 2.21.4 Development Release is now available: This is the third release of the GNOME 2.21.x series, heading towards the stable GNOME 2.22.x release. Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:49:31 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru) Gnome 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News Philipp Esselbach http://www.osnews.com/story/18981/GNOME_2.20.2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18981/GNOME_2.20.2_Released/ GNOME 2.20.2 has been released. "This is the second update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown bugs and crashers." Not a whole lot more to say on this one. Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 94 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News http://www.osnews.com/story/18972/GNOME_Board_Elections_2007/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18972/GNOME_Board_Elections_2007/ Get out your popcorn, boys and girls, this is geek soap opera at its finest. "Jeff Waugh is a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive. He is poisonous people." GNOME's Murray Cumming blogging on Jeff Waugh, all in relation to the board elections. Cumming first detailed what he deemed good candidates, he then went on to lambast the only bad candidate (according to Cumming): Waugh. "His behavior is far beyond the acceptable and displays contempt for the people in GNOME who actually do work. We've tolerated it too long, lost several high-level contributors because of it, slowed down the work of other contributors, and made their work unpleasant. That cost is too high, and we receive almost nothing in return. Jeff Waugh's only aim is self-publicity and any responsibilities in GNOME are just a way to achieve that. As long as his abysmal destructive misuse of those responsibilities is tolerated then he will happily continue clinging to symbolic authority regardless of the effects on GNOME. He seems driven by paranoia that people seek his downfall, but he is not driven by any need to do the job. Inevitably, people soon do want him to get out of the way." The story continues on Planet GNOME, with people supporting Cumming, but also a lot of people demanding a retraction. Don't kill the messenger. Update: Waugh's response. "There's a layer of truth to some of what Murray has said, but his shockingly exaggerated, hateful message is not intended to resolve or heal. Murray does not accept or credit my commitment or contributions to the project, and he has sought to denigrate, disenfranchise and discredit me consistently over the years... Though this is obviously the loudest and most hurtful attempt." Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:18:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 39 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News JCooper http://www.osnews.com/story/18967/GNOME_Foundation_Defends_OOXML_Involvement/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18967/GNOME_Foundation_Defends_OOXML_Involvement/ "The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications. However, whether the statement's attempt at logical rebuttal will do anything to reduce the emotions or altruism behind the criticisms is anybody's guess." Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:31:35 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Gnome 69 http://www.osnews.com/topics/58 News