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Gnome 2.0 Alpha 1 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the coming-out-at-you dept.

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.

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  1. Frist Porst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yalla!

  2. gnome sucks cock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gnome sucks
    use kde

  3. WTF??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hey Vlad, what's going on with Geekizoid? Anything coming up? And what the hell is the new Trolltalk sid, I always just linked from Giz.

  4. why change from kde? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would I change from KDE to gnome? KDE is a lot more fleshed out that gnome is. And I don't want any of that commericial ximian shit in my hd. It's fucked up my distro 2 times now.

  5. um, Hemos, you dumb ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Putting a link to ftp.gnome.org in the story?

    Attempting to break some sort of stupidity record are we?

  6. Agreed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  7. Gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whats Gnome? And why would I want to use it? Does it enhance my command line in some way? Does it make vi work better? What is this Gnome thingy everyone keeps talking about???

  8. Re:A bit of thought on the evolution of the GNOME. by mal0rd · · Score: 1, Troll
    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.
    ...
    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.

  9. Re:after you check out gnome2a1, check out kde3a1 by diamondc · · Score: 1, Troll

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

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  10. Re:A bit of thought on the evolution of the GNOME. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hahaha you're a fucking moron prettyboy

  11. Have they dropped Nautalus? by strredwolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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