Gnome 2.0 is finally here! Read the
press release,
download Gnome 2.0 for various architectures, mirrors
here, while the Sun Solaris 8 version can be found
here.
Update: Compilation instructions
here. You might want to use the
CVSGnome script which downloads and compiles everything for you, but make sure you will give it a subdir on your ~/ or on /opt/gnome2 as PREFIXDIR, and not anywhere outside your $HOME or /opt. Type "world stable" when you are asked to, and it will do everything for you. You will need to modify the script's compiler CPU defaults from "athlon" to whatever you got. Or, you could use
Garnome.