Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2007 21:51 UTC, submitted by JCooper
GNOME 2.20 has been released. "The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring. Developers receive more help with application development thanks to a new version of the GTK+ toolkit, improved tools, and a great new documentation web site."
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RE[5]: Likewise in Fedora 8
by dylansmrjones on Thu 20th Sep 2007 13:21
in reply to "RE[4]: Likewise in Fedora 8"
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It is not stable and it is not in gentoo. It is not in gentoo until it is officially in portage. What you are hinting at are merely some internal developer ebuilds.
Gnome 2.20 is NOT available for gentoo yet, no more than WinFS is available for WinXP.
If you look at the gentoo forum you'll see that the developer ebuilds either don't compile or don't run - or when they run they are extremely buggy.
It is true I can use unofficial ebuilds and use them in my local overlay, but I do NOT put anything important in my local overlay. GCC, binutils, Gnome, GTK+ and other important parts of my system will always be rock-stable versions, and not some experimental builds.
EDIT: Available != Stable
Edited 2007-09-20 13:29 UTC
RE[6]: Likewise in Fedora 8
by cyclops on Thu 20th Sep 2007 13:31
in reply to "RE[5]: Likewise in Fedora 8"
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2006-03-12
"I've been using gentoo for years, and if you check gentoo's bugzilla you'll see I am the de-facto gentoo maintainer of the pimlico project and a few other things.
(Gnome 2.14 btw. - with GCC 4.1.1 from unstable branch as well.. not wise 
)"
When I say stable I mean stable as in x86 instead of ~x86 or [m]x86 or [m]~x86
It is not stable until it is in the stable branch in gentoo. I've tried using Gnome before it went stable in gentoo, and I'm not doing that again
Did I stutter.
"FYI gnome 2.20 is already available for Gentoo.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-584813-highlight-gnome.html
It is your decision how stable you want to run *your* system, although If you do not know how to use portage effectively I suspect you should wait until Gnome 2.20 is stable."