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GNOME 2.8 Released

Posted by timothy on from the it's-slippery-and-cute dept.

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."

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  1. OH MAN! by justkarl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Check it out! Scalable Nibbles! I'm in.

  2. Re:BSD/GNOME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you understand what you've just done? Now we need to deal with a bunch of "They're both dying!" jokes.

    Thanks. Thanks a lot.

  3. Must be a bug by 3terrabyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish they'd test their releases first!
    I'm having trouble installing it. XP keeps telling me it doesn't know what to do with a .tar file.

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  4. Netcraft confirms it... GNOME is dying! by CaptainPinko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Netcraft confirms it... GNOME is dying! I couldn't find a single server or otherwise headless machine running it. These are dark days in indeed. In fact the recent release of GNOME 2.8 and the upcoming release of FreeBSD 5 are only more nails in the proverbial coffin.

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  5. Re:cool by LilMikey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I get so sick of the gits on Slashdot assuming that only drooling morons use KDE and GNOME.

    In all fairness, I think the assumption is that only drooling morons read Slashdot. Some just happen to use Gnome as well.

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