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Gnome Begins The 1.2 Freeze
A reader wrote to us with the news from Gnome.org stating that the freeze for 1.2 has begun. Gnome-core and gnome-applets 1.1.1 (Beantown) was released at the same time, but is meant for "advanced users and developers" so play carefully kids. This release marks the last release with new features until post-1.2 - a full list of the new features/fixes is in the changes list of 1.1.1.
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Through dependencies deep and rpms old,
We must QA ere break of day,
"Squash the bugs," we are cajoled.
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And help us fill existing gaps.
While the Gnomes QA beneath the moon,
KDE hears the tramp of doom,
They rpm -e, their desktop falls,
Beneath our apps, it will be soon.
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This freeze is only for the gnome-core package, NOT for the whole of GNOME.
Note that gnome-core (panel, session manager, some other desktop components) will have a 1.2 release, but gnome-libs, control-center, and some other components will be jumping straight to 2.0 and will come out some months after gnome-core does. gnome-core will also get a 2.0 update. So this is not GNOME 1.2 but "Half of GNOME 1.2" the other half of GNOME will go straight to 2.0 over a longer timeframe.
Although I'm a little aprehensive, a buddy of mine has it up and running already and says it is very slow at times, he's still tweaking but not having much luck. However from what he says it's a GIANT leap in the right direction. Very slick.
The FTP links:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/ GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-core/
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/p ub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-applets/
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