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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Sep 2005 14:49 UTC, submitted by Mitarai

Ken Mays of Blastwave.org has ported GNOME 2.12.0 to Sun Solaris x86 and has stable packages available for downloading here. Instructions for downloading other Blastwave packages are available in the user guide and mirrors section of the Blastwave organization's website.

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debian

by on Wed 21st Sep 2005 16:21 UTC

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Seems every platform/distro will get gnome 2.12 before debian.... it's not even in the experimental repo yet!!!

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RE: debian

by captain_knobjockey on Wed 21st Sep 2005 16:32 in reply to "debian"

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2005-08-23

is gnome 2.12 classed as stable yet ?
debian likes stuff to be stable
so much so that they still use Xfree86

if you want new stuff, try a distro that supports new UNSTABLE stuff

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RE[2]: debian

by on Wed 21st Sep 2005 18:03 in reply to "RE: debian"

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err, debian unstable now uses xorg

nixbox:/home/yanik# X -version

X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 20050908031534 David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>)
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux nixbox 2.6.12-1-k7 #1 Tue Sep 6 16:28:10 UTC 2005 i686
Build Date: 08 September 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.12-1-k7 (dilinger@mouth) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)) #1 Tue Sep 6 16:28:10 UTC 2005 T

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