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."

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gnome-look

[Gandalfar]

And don't forget gnome-look for eye candy

List of prizes:

[rd4tech]

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!

Re:List of prizes:

[Henrik S. Hansen]

The FSF asks us to boycott Amazon.com because of the one click patent.

This is not true. FSF has in fact ended the boycott.

Re:Nice

[It'sYerMam]

An RSS feed - very neat. I already check the FootNotes feed, now I have more GNOME goodies in my RSS Panel :-)
As for trying out gnome, the easiest way is to grab Fedora which has GNOME 2.6 on the CDs.
It's possible, but slow, to trawl through the sources at ftp.gnome.org, downloading all the necessary files. However, if you can find binary packages for your distro of choice then I'd go for them.

"Own"?

[twener]

"Own" is good when this is in fact a commercial third party site.

Re:Guys, while we're on the subject...

[Anonymous Coward]

Bee Ohh Ess - the name was picked by the users in 1996.

Re:slashdot = osnews + 5 days

[arvindn]

Hi,

The GNOME devs are actively working on this issue.

See for example

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ 2004-May/msg00028.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004 -April/msg00065.html

You should start seeing the improvements in 2.8.

Re:I see one big problem

[donscarletti]

Gnome has remained ABI stable since 2.0 (two years ago). So basically any app less than 2 years old will run on a linux/gnome system. This is not nearly as good as XP, but it is still respectable. Gnome 2.8 will be released in september, and guess what it is ABI compatible with? Yes! 2.0, just like the version before was. And of cause one can install gnome 2.x libraries in parralel to gnome 1.x libraries, meaning that to upgrade one doesn't have to do anything like "hosing gnome"

Basically I think you are overstating the problem just a tad and being a little melodramatic. Yes, gnome isn't as ABI stable as Win32 but it is far from as bad as you make out. I know some very hard-core gnome core developers who are still using 2.0 because they have not been forced to upgrade and they can DEVELOP their components (for the 2.8 release) quite fine on their long-obsolete but still compatible systems.