Gnome 2.0 Alpha 1 Released

Dave H writes "The first pre-release of the GNOME 2 platform is now available! Find it at you can grab it from FTP.gnome.org It is of course a technology preview; note that it can't be installed alongside GNOME 1.x." There's some more information information posted on LinuxToday.

Comments

Agreed.

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to treat posts like this as trolls. I first used KDE back around 1997 (I think). I didn't like it at all. I didn't use it for years after that, sticking with WindowMaker and finally Gnome. Then, about 3-6 months ago, I tried KDE again. Wow. Screw Gnome. I doubt I'd ever go back.

KDE is very mature and quite quick when used on a modern machine. Gnome is so far behind. I'd love to see KDE become the de facto standard desktop.

Re:A bit of thought on the evolution of the GNOME.

[mal0rd]

Some people think that GNOME is far better than both Windows and KDE. Lately, the GNOME has got a valuable addition: Open Office, the remnants of StarOffice. This would really make it possible for GNOME to gain acceptance in the desktop.
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I just don't understand why the talented GNOME developers don't start developing for the KDE instead?

Well, for the answer to your question look back earlier in your post. GNOME is better than KDE. Why would the GNOME workers want to start working on KDE? There would be catchup to do. Also, Qt isn't a as free as gtk. It is owned by Trolltech that sells more advanced versions of Qt. This means that if someone wanted to add new features to the free Qt, like for instance the ones included in the commercial versions, and Trolltech didn't like it, a new branch would need to be started. Then there would be two Qt's and that would be messy.

Re:after you check out gnome2a1, check out kde3a1

[diamondc]

.. and of course this has EVERYTHING to do with gnome 2..

Have they dropped Nautalus?

[strredwolf]

If it still has Nautalus (sp?), it's useless. Nautalus is useless for those who still like to keep their file manager seperate from the desktop.