Star First Look at GNOME 2.22.0
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Mar 2008 23:32 UTC, submitted by irbis
Gnome 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."
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RE: Word choice?
by kaiwai on Wed 12th Mar 2008 00:16 UTC in reply to "Word choice?"
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I like Gnome and all (although I'm a wmii user nowadays), but I think "revolutionary" is a bit of overly-strong word choice. Yes, I know, you were just quoting the article. But, still, does the front page of OSnews really need to read like an overhyped ad?

(yes, I do still exist as a commenter. woo.)


I second that; when reading it felt more like a marketing blurb than an introduction to GNOME 2.22 - then again, I guess the article was never designed for cynical people like myself ;)

With that being said, I do believe that over hyping, although provides coverage, does have the risk of back firing. We only need to look at Leopard and the '300 features' promised, or the 'Windows Vista Ultimate' and the 'exclusive extras' that too were promised.

I do hope that opensource projects and journalists learn from past mistakes before they (either one of them) make pronouncements like 'revolution' in the future.

Edited 2008-03-12 00:17 UTC

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