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GNOME 2.8 Released
damogar writes "The GNOME 2.8 Desktop and Platform release is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, out today, with an awesome schedule time. Some pretty cool improvements have been made, specially the Nautilus file manager, the new MIME system and others.
Release notes are already available, as well as screenshots and a variety of sources. Enjoy!"
jimmy_dean adds a plug for the new
GNOME Journal, which is meant to be a source of "good written material surrounding GNOME and the opinions of the community."
WHY BOTHER? Come on Gnome, give it up already. You lost the desktop war to KDE (And deservedly so!) Now all you're doing is wasting your time and making grandious claims that do not reflect reality whilst you puff your chests like some GNU hackers in shining armour. You are the HURD developers of the desktop. Just go away and do something useful instead.
Let me guess; the story submitter is on the KDE side in the zealot wars, and he thinks Netcraft has something to confirm about GNOME's future?
;)
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it still isn't much use since its slashdotted. thanks for nothing
Believe me, I have utmost respect for the Gnome developers, and I've been a FreeBSD volunteer for years now, but as much as it pains me to say it, I really think Apple Computer has made the finest Unix desktop experience so far with MacOS X. My server platforms are all Linux and FreeBSD, but my desktop and laptop are both Apple, and I couldn't be happier with the user experience.
... see, this is on-topic!
And best of all, MacOS X is based on FreeBSD 5
If KDE and GNOME are the "greatest as it gets on Linux", I'd rather not. Hell, give me DOS and Win3.1.
There is *no* integration on Linux. So much fragmentation from multiple distros, multiple desktops, and now multiple X servers!?!
People who think GNOME/KDE and *gasp* Windows are good examples of desktops (or even OS X) have never seen what is truely possible. I'm afraid Unix pipe is about the highest level of integration Linux will ever have, just because it is such a fundamental design decision and Unix-style OSes are not well-suited for integration. All that CORBA crap will never fly, if they are even still considering it feasible (what a joke).
And that is part of the reason it is such a slow pig. Everything has to be done at the user-level, which translates into ad-hoc mechansism for performance. Just count all of them in X11.. so many hacks to get it closer to the hardware, when the entire system was designed to *remove* hardware aspects and make it completely seperate from hardware concerns. All you can do is throw more hardware at the monster now.
Give it time. You'll miss more than that ;)
correction:: ...is nothing more than FreeBSD
Why do the keep bothering. Gnome's gone below the feature set of a light weight window manager but kept the complex requirements and bloat of a heavy weight window manager. I just can't get work done with Gnome. Give me either Windows XP or KDE. New Gnome versions aren't even newsworthy any more.....