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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha

Posted by michael on from the good-gnus dept.

xer.xes writes: "The first public testing release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop, 'Rolig Liten Hattgubbe,' is ready for your testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download here. Please read the release notes first! Due for general consumption in March, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is a greatly improved user environment for existing GNOME applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first class internationalisation support, new accessibility features for disabled users, and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly regarded user interface."

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  1. One Small Step by Renraku · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its nice to see another step in the uphill battle Linux faces against the already-popular Windows. I, for one, will use Linux more now.

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  2. Re:put on the fire suit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can only assume it's by eyecandy experts; it certainly shouldn't be by usability experts...

  3. jesus! by poemofatic · · Score: 0, Troll

    insightful AC post duplicated here for wider availability. Mod parent up, so I wont have to burn more karma points like this:

    This is the most politically correct (as in Slashdot-politically correct) post I have ever seen! Kudos to you, thoughtless meat popsicle!

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  4. Re:For you non-Swedes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    (yes, it sounds ridiculous in my language too)


    In my language, which is not swedish, it sounds like a faggot looking for something to take up the ass.

  5. it sounds like a euphamism all right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    but not for a gnome. A dick, more like. But then you opensources people produce cocked up code anyway... PROPZ TO alll DEaD PeNIS BIRDZ!1!

  6. It's nice to see that ... by Reality_X · · Score: 0, Troll

    It still looks fucking ugly.
    Ick.

    Maybe the companies funding GNOME should pay someone with eyes for design some money.
    The themes suck, too.

    If only someone working on these open source desktop environments/UI toolkits/etc would take a good look at MacOS, MacOSX, or even Windows.

    No comparison.
    ...

    Maybe their code has improved.
    GNOME. Too little, too late.

    (By the way, yes, I think KDE is better. Alot better. Alot more coherent. Alot more together. And the APIs are _SO_ much cleaner. The code is _SO_ much better.

    KDE is not perfect. Nowhere near Windows/Mac. But ... maybe it'll catch up in 5 years or something. And then GNOME will take another 5 years to come up to par with where KDE was. 5 years ago. Woo! Desktop Linux! heh.)

  7. Re:What? No Mastercard posts? by Choose+Wisely · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is foolishness. Why wouldn't you want to use a commercially viable operating system that's secure, reliable, and stable that supports all your hardware and performs at its full potential? I've been nothing but satisfied with Windows XP, and consider it worth every penny I spent.

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