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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Aug 2007 13:14 UTC

GNOME 2.19.6 has been released yesterday. "This is our sixth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are still arriving, so your mission is simple : Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it."

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compile it?

by evert on Thu 2nd Aug 2007 14:28 UTC

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Wasn't Gnome dropped from Slackware because compiling it is not that easy?

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RE: compile it?

by kaiwai on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 05:00 in reply to "compile it?"

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Wasn't Gnome dropped from Slackware because compiling it is not that easy?

Kinda, it had to do more with the fact that there are heaps of dependencies which cause all manner of problems - the solution is reduceing and consolidating them down to a minimal base. Its going to take a while - and there is nothing stopping Slackware folk from jumping in and helping address these problems.

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