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GNOME 2.0 Beta

Posted by michael on from the size-13-wide dept.

xer.xes writes: "The first public beta release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop 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." LinuxToday or gnome-announce have the announcement. I don't see release notes anywhere - post a link in the comments if you find them. GNOME is having a bug day today.

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  1. Re:Gnome or KDE? by st.+augustine · · Score: 5, Informative
    The anti aliased fonts, is that the gtk hack that came some months ago? It looked really ugly. :-P

    No, it's the proper, internationalized anti-aliasing that's been in the works for a while. For a good list of all the user-visible changes in Gnome 2, check out Havoc Pennington's "What's New in Gnome 2" page.

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  2. Some juicy screenshots by segfaultdot · · Score: 5, Informative

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  3. mirrors by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main FTP site seems to be down, but at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/MIRRORS.html you can find a list of mirrors.

    A few of them are:

    ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Gnome
    ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/
    ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/gnome/
    ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/GNOME

  4. APT-get the Red Hat packages by Nailer · · Score: 5, Informative
    For Red Hat users, packages of Gnome 2.0 for Red Hat 7.2 should be available within Gnomehide reasonably soon, depending on how fast Havoc Pennington updates GNOMEhide (usually within a week, judging by previous announcements).

    Add the following lines to your sources.list


    # Red Hat Linux Rawhide
    #rpm http://apt.nixia.no redhat/rawhide/i386 cds
    #rpm http://apt.nixia.no redhat/7.2/i386 gnomehide

    And if you still don't have apt-get, then visit Freshrpms, download it, use it, and wonder how you ever got along without it.

    PS - If any of you have the bandwidth to host a publically avaliable apt repository for Red Hat, then please post to the freshrpms mailing list and tell us all about it.
  5. Re:GNOME vs KDE for the newbie by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Download ROX filer. and then replace the Bloatware called nautilus with ROX (to replace the desktop you need to run ROX as ROX -p=default)

    This one change will increase the speed of Gnome by at least 300% no you dont get the nice-n-integrated everything that Nautilus is but you also lose the one thing that makes gnome slower than tar.

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