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GNOME 2.5.0 Available For FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the little-gnomes-everywhere dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke announces that GNOME 2.5.0 desktop, the "Obviously you're not a golfer" release, is now available for FreeBSD. You can check out this release from the MarcusCom CVS repository. Be sure to get the latest copy of the "marcusmerge" script while you're there to help with the upgrade. Thanks to FreeBSD GNOME users, there is also a man page to go with this script. NOTE: this is a developers release, and bugs will exist. If you're not into bug-hunting, you should probably steer clear until 2.6.0 is released."

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  1. Re:Are you guys coming or what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ooooh, "Linsux". How marvellously witty of you to use such a term.

    Face it, man -- while FreeBSD is a great OS, there are no compelling reasons to use it over Linux. You get more x86 hardware and software support in Linux, it's just as stable (if not more so) with solid distros such as Debian and Slackware, it's faster (as reports have shown), it scales much better and it has heaps of commercial support.

    And, best of all, its userbase isn't composed entirely of bitter, weird counter-culture losers who've no social graces and can't deal with newcomers.

    Hah. You're killing BSD (well, not NetBSD which is superb :-) )