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GNOME Gets its Own Software Repository
PostThis writes "After the attack to the Gnome servers a few months back the Gnome Project was left without a third party software repository (which wasn't that usable anyway). The gap was filled in very recently by GnomeFiles.org. The site was built using BeBits as a model (BeOS users still swear by it) and they are looking into filling up their Gnome/GTK+ software database quickly; they are offering prizes to Gnome developers who will submit an app during the first week of the site's launch."
Both BeOS users swear by it...
Gnomefiles.org looks nice and intuitive. I like the RSS feed, the layout and the simple interface of the site. I've wanted to go in this direction for some time and I think I might just have to try gnome out now. Any suggestions for someone getting started with Gnome?
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And don't forget gnome-look for eye candy
I wonder whether I can submit all the miscellaneous lint I've acquired for the developers
It's a real pity when things like that get hacked - It's GNOME people who're the real hackers, after all. In addition, this is a free software group - it's not like they're a software giant *cough* who crushes small businesses *cough* and uses illegal business practises *cough* (Oh, sod this - MICROSOFT) We need more white-hats, to go and whoop Teh Script Kidde H4x0r'S arses...
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Four $25 Amazon.com gift certificates
- Ten OSNews subscriptions (allowing you to read a faster-loading OSNews without ads), a $20 value each.
- One copy of "Advanced UNIX Programming, Second Edition" by Mark Rochkind.
- Four blocks of $50 in free advertising to promote your application.
Nice!
Gnome gap gone, get gnew goodies grazing GnomeFiles.org
Yeah, I submitted mine today...it's called......um....gImmeaprize
Did I win?
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"Own" is good when this is in fact a commercial third party site.
While some people really like GNOME's design, I have significant issues with the software available to it and the desktop environment itself. GNOME has a hard time separating out libraries that it's not using for a given applications. The environment tends to take a shotgun approach at loading up EVERYTHING and then just dismissing libraries it's not using. The memory footprint, however, ends up being much larger than KDE (I didn't think this was possible until I ran GNOME).
I just hope that with this new incentive to bring in GTK+ apps that people start more closely examining the underlying software support for the GNOME project. I think GNOME is still light-years behind KDE, not so much in interface, but in foundation and logic.
I'd like to see more developers optimize GTK apps to only load needed libraries. I think this is one of the reasons linux has come under fire recently for being "unusable" on older systems - it loads up too much junk with the standard desktop environments. I don't mean for this to be a flame towards the GNOME project, but it's just an unfortunate trend I'm noticing.
GTK apps need to be refined, such that they don't start following the Microsoft paradigm of, "since we have it, let's bring everything in and add it to the toolbar... woot woot".
Any thoughts on this?
How is "BeOS" pronounced? Is is "Bee Eee Ohh Ess", "Bee Ohh Ess", or "Bee-Ohhss"? kthnx
...if it is you, who invented it...
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...it would get its icon on Slashdot updated.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
I've been a long time user of BeBits and am real happy to see a similiar site for Gnome. It is a bit spooky to see a site that looks almost exactly like a site you've been using for awhile. It would be like a Bizzaro Slashdot where everything looks familiar, but then you notice that the articles use correct spelling and the Webmaster's name is Samurai Steve.
Congratulations, you have posted the first slashborg post! Keep up the good work. Your sig is particularly ironic, btw.
XML causes global warming.
I run Slackware, and yes I've dl'ed Dropline Gnome, but that has to be the slowest torrent I've seen in a long time. And it's torrent-only download.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
User X hears about Gnomefiles and see cool new verison .x of some app. He's currently running Fedora Core 2, Mandrake, or Suse(ie a top 3 distro) or something else that comes with Gome 2.6. Of course this new app requires GTK and glib .x which of course are newer than what he has on his system. User tries to get it working but either can't or ends up hosing his Gnome install. Now I'm sure this is when user of distro X pipes in a say "but my distro can do it!". Good for you. That doesn't change the fact that getting both the latest and oldest versions of Gnome apps running on the same system isn't a royal PITA for many users. Don't even get me stated on the latest apps which require Gstreamer.
Say what you want about Windows but if your running XP you can download and install pretty much any app from last 8 years and get it to work. There are of course exceptions to this rule but for the most part its possible with little to no effort. For most people Gnomefile.org is just going to be a painful reminder of what cool apps are out there but you can't run because you can't figure out how to install them without hosing your system. For the new generation of Linux Desktop users this continues to be a huge problem.
This was news several days ago...
Gnome get home!
Gnome no roam!
Last gnome home overthrown,
get owned!
Users groan:
Gnome overblown!
Biggest bloat known,
look like windows clone!
Gnome throw bone
Prize for code loan!
"Hone tome
that is gnome;
No more piss and moan."
You're right - if you work off of random tarballs off of the net, you will end up with a hosed install. Stick with the major distribution automation tools - apt, yum etc. Packages in the repositories are typically kept "sane".
Flamebait? Nah, simple statement of fact, kiddo. There isn't even a KDE icon.
From the story:
they are offering prizes to Gnome developers who will submit an app during the first week of the site's launch.
Of course, this is only a possible scenario (and I'm in a pessimistic mood at the moment (or always)). I hope the site goes well, though!
....why not, really? It's more than half way there already. When I think OS, I think the pile of applications I use. The gnome desktop and assembled apps are a GUI computing experience, that appears to me to be the design goal, they don't need much more to make a full fledged gnome OS, only real probs I could forsee would be which package manager they wanted to use, and they could put it to a vote probably.
Just a thought and I know in advance a lot of folks will say "you can do this with distroX, why should they....", I know that, just throwing it out for a possibility. Distros by and large are just choice of kernel, arch, how they package, pile 0 libraries, and what apps ya got. More or less.
Oh, so that thingy on the 8th row must be a delusion, then. And these articles don't exist.
Well, since an upgrade from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 crippled my system so that I am unable to use GTK-based applications, it is difficult to be enthusuastic about this availability.
How can this be redundant? He posted before anyone else did about this fact. Moderate it Off-topic or Troll, but definitely not Redundant.
and what you say is correct, I'll grant that-take your word for it. What I am thinking is also correct though, by trying to be all things to all people all the time they dilute resources, have to work around a lot of inconsistencies, etc. There's nothing stopping any large desktop project like gnome from deciding on being an *integrated* project rather than a *scattered* project that tries to be the kitchen sink for eveything out there.
It's just an idea, no biggee. Here is my thinking in an anology form. If I was starting out to build a car, and I wanted it to be the best car, I wouldn't simultaneously try to build a car,a truck,a tractor,a motorcycle,an airplane, a submarine, and a ferris wheel all at the same time. In meat space, companies that are just starting out and have a good idea but get sidetracked and try that sort of model run into problems a lot of times. I think things would get scattered and confusing and would slow down the primary deal. Eventually maybe, ya, branch out,after your core important product is just super established and well built and well received and works really well, sure go for it then, branch out, but initially, nope, wouldn't do it for a long time, I'd stick with the meat and potatoes market I was looking for that would maybe bring home the bacon, make it easier on me, and better for the clients-initially.
"What is BeBits for, anyway? tbd " http://www.bebits.com/faq Hehe.
Finest word processor ever.
I really dislike sites that render all their content into a piddly little column in the middle of my browser window. It's not that hard to select a design that flows to the user's preference for width, really.
(Joel Spolsky's site being the worst offender yet: check out how bad it is when he includes a sidebar! There's more sidebar than actual text!)
I am a happy gnome user, but one area in which I think the gnome project needs a lot of work is with the webpage. Even though they recently (a year ago?) updated gnome.org with a new look, it is already falling into unmaintenance.
Furthermore, gnome.org is far from the central site regarding things about gnome, which I think is a big mistake. In fact, even though I'm a heavy user of gnome stuff and keep up to date with gnome news, I hardly ever visit. Many important websites about gnome like footnotes or fifth toe or this site just announced aren't part of the gnome.org or at least have a DNS alias. Why? This is one area where KDE really has their act together, nearly everything side project and KDE group is part of the KDE domain.
Maintaining a website is a lot of work, so I know what I'm asking but I really think they could do better.
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