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michael
on from the world-outside-KDE dept.
JanneM writes "Gnome 2.4 is arriving early september. Sayamindu Dasgupta has installed the 2.3.5 development release to see what's in store, and has written a very nice overview of the upcoming release."Update: 08/14 16:06 GMT by M: The author has provided a mirror.
You do realize that the _desktop_ is controlled by Nautilus, and thus you really can't close it without killing it, right?
nautilus can be run with the --no-desktop option to lighten it up a little bit. it makes it usable with fluxbox on a dual ppro 200 for me.