GNOME 2.11.5 has been
released. As with the Linux kernel, odd-numbered versions indicate development releases. Download:
platform,
desktop, and
bindings.
Submitted by Claus Schwarm
2005-07-15
Gnome
The latest issue of
The GNOME Journal features thoughts about marketing GNOME, a review of RSS feed readers for GNOME, a short preview on modeling with K-3D, an introduction to F-Spot, an introduction to Foresight Desktop Linux, and a review of Robert Love's 'Linux Kernel Development', 2nd Edition.
"I read with some interest about the
GNOME startup bounty. As Stephen O'Grady
pointed out, this problem is indeed perfect for
DTrace. To get a feel for the problem, I wrote a very simple D script."
Read more...
Dropline GNOME 2.10.2 has been released, a complete ISO image will be available soon.
The second point release of the stable 2.10.x branch of GNOME is now
officially released. This release has seen continued work to eliminate memory leaks, plain bugs and in general improve and polish the stable series of GNOME. Source:
bindings,
desktop,
platform.
Submitted by Adrian
2005-05-31
Gnome
Nokia will
donate the proceeds from the sales of 500 Nokia 770 Internet Tablets to the GNOME foundation.
The 2005 GNOME User and Developer European Conference
(GUADEC) is underway in Stuttgart, and there are live and archived streams of the events
available. It's almost like being there! In more GUADEC news, Nat Friedman notes some
interesting finds on his blog: SymphonyOS and Thunar.
Design your application's GUI look in XML, write the code in Java and
plug the whole thing in to the GNOME desktop.
Edd Dumbill, valuable member and developer of the GNOME Desktop Environment, author of the "Mono: A Developer's Notebook" book,
speaks up his mind about GNOME in one of his recent blog entries.
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge (Aq), Ade Bradshaw, and Matt Revell talk about Linux and whatever else comes along, including The Seth, the Nickell, the Seth Nickell, on usability, interaction design, the Gnome project, and
lots of other stuff.
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So the forces of existing userbase, the easiest-to-reach future userbase, cross-platform applications, and funded development efforts are strongly pulling GNOME 2 toward conservatism. I think GNOME 3 should be a fork for that reason". Read Havoc Pennington's
blog entry regarding Gnome 3.
I have written an article for my
O'Reilly Weblog called
Remixing how we use the Open Source desktop discussion a design to better integrate software together within the umbrella of a project. With a particular focus on GNOME, the article seeks to present a means of making the desktop more useful when applied within the common 'project' setting.
The first point release for the stable 2.10.x series of the
GNOME Desktop & Dev Platform is out. This is the first in a series of stable releases containing bugfixes, translation updates & other improvements.
Gnome has been plugging away with its 2.X series from quite some time now, updating every 6 months on a predictable schedule making incremental improvements with each release. During this period they have kept their API stable and have refrained from making fundamental changes to the project. The developers have acknowledged that at some point in the somewhat near future, they will break from this series and begin work on a new series that removes some of the old cruft and changes some fundamental approaches in how people use Gnome. Here are
a few of my suggestions for what would help Gnome 3 a revolutionary leap forward.
Guest post by Anonymous Reader
2005-03-30
Gnome
Today I thought about how I can make my very own application to only link against those libraries that it really requires and not those it get provided by PKG-CONFIG.
HASE is investigating parts of the usability of GNOME. You can participate on the survey
here.
Foresight Linux is a distribution which showcases some of the latest and greatest from GNOME. Some of the things that may not be mature enough for some of the other distros. Some of the more innovative things are included, like Beagle, f-spot, howl, and the latest hal.
As most OSNews readers know, I got into a spat with the Gnome developers last week, which culminated in my publishing of an angry editorial, which sparked a firestorm of controversy. On one hand, the controversy was positive, because it introduced a lot of people to the fact that many people believe that Gnome developers have not had an effective channel to receive and interpret feedback from users. But on the other hand, the controversy had the negative effect of inflaming passions, putting everyone's guard up, and perhaps even widening the gulf between those who love Gnome but want a voice in its future, and those who hold its future in their hands. This effect was unintentional, and I would like to apologize for any damage I might have done to the project.
Submitted by Mark Dillavou
2005-03-09
Gnome
Gnome 2.10 has been
released. "It includes a number of interesting new features and hundreds of bug fixes" along with a video player and a CD-ripping utility.
Submitted by Ben Mauer
2005-03-06
Gnome
Novell and OSNews are sponsoring the memory reduction project led by Novell's Ben Mauer by providing bounties to developers to help to clean up bloat in GNOME and related programs. If you are a developer and you are interested in some extra cash or prizes by making Gnome more usable on machines with 128 MBs of RAM (very usual configuration in developing countries or even European businesses),
please read here. Related post
here.
