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Gnome 1.4 "Tranquility" Released

Posted by michael on from the calm-as-a-morning-stuck-in-traffic dept.

Roanld Bultje writes: "According to this article on LinuxToday, Gnome 1.4 has just been released! Gnome and all other required packages can be downloaded from Gnome's FTP or a mirror. Medusa seems to have been removed from the final release due to some bugs that were found recently. Let's hope that this new release puts Gnome next to KDE's 2.x-version." Download.gnome.org will pick a mirror site for you automagically.

3 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not too sorry to see medusa go by ethereal · · Score: 5
    last time I tried medusa, it slowed my machine to a crawl while it was running

    You might almost say it turned your machine to stone :) hee hee

    ...or maybe not.

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    Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and

  2. Re:Mirrors by ole · · Score: 5

    If you want to run a public FTP mirror of the GNOME FTP site, please send us the URL to the mirror and the adminstrative contact address for the mirror, and we'll be happy to add you to our mirror database and provide you with the required password.

    Thanks,
    The GNOME system administration team

  3. KDE 2 and Gnome by yoink! · · Score: 5

    I am continually and consistently impressed with the linux community and their development scheme. I recall early last spring when Helixcode was distributing the update to Gnome and how wonderful it was. What I find really funny is that other companies, hint the BIG Guy, would designate whole new version numbers as in 2.0, 3.0, just to give the software buying public something to clearly define one from the other.

    Instead we have version 1.4 and people are going to love it because its hopefully more stable and user friendly. I was so impressed with KDE2 when it came out that I stopped using anything else, but made sure the other libraries were installed in case I wanted to run anything. I'm still impressed every day when I sit down and in front of a linux machine and find the interface more intuitive than those of other operating systems.

    We're at a wonderful crossroads it seems. The desktops GUIs of opensource software are really beginning to shine, and will increasingly provide an alternative to costly, closed-source, operating systems and software in the near future; something that clearly benefits everyone.


    yoink