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GNOME in the Year of the Monkey

Posted by michael on from the timmah! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GNOME Foundation's Tim Ney describes some of the project's efforts marking the Lunar New Year of the Monkey with a tip, "Never sit with your back to a lobbyist for proprietary software." GNOME is rapidly becoming popular in developing countries and you can donate to help."

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  1. Year of the Monkey cant be that good... by MrRTFM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Developers, Developers, Developers!!!!!

    We all know where this is going to lead :(

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    You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
  2. year of the monkey by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNOME Foundation's Tim Ney describes some of the project's efforts marking the Lunar New Year of the Monkey with a tip.

    Huh? Year of The Monkey can only be good for Ximian Desktop.

    GNOME's logo desn't look like a monkey's print anyway.

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    The IT section color scheme sucks.
    1. Re:year of the monkey by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      GNOME's logo desn't look like a monkey's print anyway.

      It's just a pretty rare species is all. And not a monkey really, an ape. The Great Octal Ape. Found only in the deepest jungles of Cambridge, MA.

      They do have a cousin though, the Lesser Bonoboctal Ape, found only in the misty, magical land known as Berserkly.

      KFG

  3. Re:Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    And vi? Who the hell uses vi these days. I installed emacs the other day and I haven't looked back - the cursor keys work, there's no stupid seperate "insert/edit/command" modes, it "just works".

    I have NO idea why anyone would choose vi over EMACS. Perhaps it's time the supporters of VIM and BSD switched to supporting EMACS instead.

    Also does anyone use Macs these days? I just got an Amiga and it is shhweeet. Decent pre-emptive multitasking and a real command line, not like a Mac where you have to install the Multifinder just to have more than one app running at once. Command line? Ha.

    Anyway, I'm converted to Amigas and EMACS forever, I do hope the community gains control over its senses and switches to supporting just these two.

  4. Re:Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yep. And the gconf-editor is a usability dream come true.

  5. Re:Fortune? by Epeeist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely - think of Stac and Spyglass.

    Hopefully we won't have to add "and Mono" to the list.

  6. Re:Gnome - vi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    learn to recognize humor

    For humor to be recognized on .SLASH, please include the humorous part in
    <quote alt="Obligatory Futurama Quote"> such tags </quote>
    to put the moderation bot in humorous mode.
  7. Re:I guess I'm really confused. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm a KDE guy, but my favorite apps are Galeon, gFTP, Evolution. Can't stand Konquerer & KMail.

    There's nothing confused about that. Since you're a KDE guy you'll have used Konquerer and KMail. Having used them it's hardly surprising that you'd hate them. All seems to follow naturally enough to me.