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GNUstep Base 1.14.0, Make 2.0.0 Released

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Apr 2007 22:22 UTC

GNUstep Base 1.14.0 has been released: "This release continues the process of cleanup and restructuring to further improve MacOS-X compatibility, fix bugs, optimise performance, and improve portability between different hardware/operating system platforms." GNUstep Make 2.0.0 has also been released: "Version 2.0.0 is a new major release of gnustep-make which includes a number of major changes compared to previous 1.x releases."

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RE: hmm

by Jesuspower on Wed 18th Apr 2007 01:13 UTC in reply to "hmm"

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2006-01-28

GNUStep was my primary environment for a year: then I got a Mac. I am setting up an email server now, and if I need a GUI for some reason, I will use the GNUStep environment again. I love it for its simplicity and speed. Its the one DE that I did not need to force to my workflow.
I've used XFCE (Made it look like BeOS), GNOME(I only like it with XFWM as the manager), KDE (ugh! Used it when GNOME was trashier), and blackbox(when all I did was code. Its wonderful for that... keeps you focused, but a pain to configure).
Sometimes I wished MacOS X worked like GNUStep does (I know it used to).

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RE[2]: hmm

by Babi Asu on Wed 18th Apr 2007 08:30 in reply to "RE: hmm"

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2006-02-11

Sometimes I wished MacOS X worked like GNUStep does (I know it used to).

Hmm, I need some elightment about this. I found that Cocoa along with XCode is working very well. GNUStep = Cocoa - Aqua (that's ugly). And I experienced that installing GNUStep requires big effort, like Aaron Hillegass said in his book.

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RE[3]: hmm

by dagw on Wed 18th Apr 2007 09:30 in reply to "RE[2]: hmm"

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2005-07-06

GNUStep seems to be based more directly on NeXT/OPENStep, while OS X took some inspiration from those, but on a lot of points felt they could do better and made a bunch of changes. OS X has been diverging more and more over the years. Many times those changes where for the better and sometimes (in my opinion) not.

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