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Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the standing-in-the-garden-with-a-gun dept.

The Original Yama writes "Ars Technica takes a look inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform, due for release any minute now. It builds upon an earlier review of the GNOME 2.5 development series and their own examination of GNOME 2.4." darthcamaro writes "internetnews.com is running a story about the release of GNOME 2.6 today. They actually got a hold of Miguel de Icaza who had some real interesting stuff to say about it and the Linux Desktop in general. 'de Icaza told internetnews.com that a simpler interface has been the goal of GNOME since at least version 2.0.'" Update: 03/31 21:59 GMT by T : sn0wman3030 was one of many submitters to link to the GNOME 2.6 start page, including links to screenshots, documentation, and source downloads.

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  1. Re:Hey Rick by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...are you still shilling for the Macinotsh on Netware?

    LMAO! That's been known to happen. :) And behind the AC curtain you are....?

  2. OT: Bloody Blooming Hell! by iainl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right, there's me thinking that for once a /. banner advert is useful - its got info on a new Sigur Ros and Radiohead thing. So I click on it, only to find out that the bloody thing is iTunes exclusive! Fecking bastages! Some of us are outside the US, and so can't get stuff from there.

    If this is the future of music distribution, I'm going back to vinyl.

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  3. Re:The Infantryman by Progman3K · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    War is the greatest sin and abomination a goverment can perpetrate against its own people.

    Karma be damned.

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    I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
  4. release for the fools.. by nsahoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it certainly looks like a fools day release.

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  5. WTF is this sun desktop thing??? by zogger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....been mostly offline too long I guess... Sorry for the side issue in the discussion, but reading the ars technica piece, it talks about this sun java desktop? China gonna slap it on 200 million PC's? Huh, never heard of it before. Does it work, suck, any reviews or personal experience here, generally wuzzup with the thing? My experience with generic java stuff is that they are slow and buggy on my olden daze hardware.

    Thanks in advance and stuff...