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Are You A Friend of Gnome?

Posted by chrisd on from the tim-ney-is-the-funk-king-of-the-east-coast dept.

From the donation page: "Love GNOME? Want to give back to the community of mostly volunteer developers who have worked so hard to make GNOME the powerful, flexible, friendly, fun desktop that it is?" There are a number of contribution levels a person can join at, so if you love Gnome, consider helping the foundation out.

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  1. Where to? by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, two things. Being the one I am for not reading the article :), exactly where is this all going? Into Miguel de Icaza's pockets? RMS's? Whose? And two, if you're looking for a good place to donate, donate to UserFriendly. There, we know where it's going. Great comic strip. A little cash-strapped though.

    --j

  2. Re:huge strides by Ambassador+Kosh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I still don't see where people get the idea that x is slower on the same hardware then windows is. That has not been my experience at all with one exception. Overall I have found matrox and ati cards to be faster under linux then under windows for the work I usually do which is a lot of coding under kde.

    However like I said I have found one exception and that is nvidia cards. I find that those ran slower under linux then under windows and where not stable under either os with my definition of stabilyt being that the system should easily have several months of uptime under fairly heavy usage.

    I have been using linux for 6 years or so now and during most of that time I have used matrox or ati cards and have found x to be faster then windows even when running kde. For a brief time I ran an nvidia card and I won't but another thing from that company. Too unstable to get work done and they don't perform well enough under 2d for x.

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    Computer modeling for biotech drug manufacturing is HARD! :)
  3. A little off topic but... by DanThe1Man · · Score: 3, Interesting

    is it pronouced "ga-nOme" or "nOme"

    and yes, saying its pronouced "Gnome" would be a funny reply.

  4. Give or dont give, but for a better reason by gnugnugnu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It has already been explained several times in this discussion

    Gnome is not just Ximian
    Gnome Foundation still not Ximian
    Ximian are one of the members of the Gnome foundation, Ximian contribute to Gnome.

    The guy from Gnome Foundation handling the money has been provided with office space by Ximian, from the sounds of it he does not even work for Ximian.

    Much as Miguel De Icaza might want it to be, Mono is not a part of Gnome. See the Gnome section of the Mono FAQ
    http://www.go-mono.com/faq.html#gnome

    Sometimes Microsoft comes up with ideas worth pursueing, sometimes not (and sometimes they are just rehashing what i think would be better done using Java but it is as much about control as it is the technology). Mono is a competitor to .Net and although it may encourage the use of C# (aka D flat) it gives people an alternative implementation of the .Net framework that they are unlikely to be trapped by vendor lock in.

    You still might not want to give to the Gnome Foundation, but many projects will accept donations directly and you could pay a few bucks to get that bug fix you really want or the feature request no one really has enough time to do,
    or you could try the other major linux desktop.

    enjoy!