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."

Comments

Re:GJ

[moonbender]

I don't get it. I'm not a native speaker, maybe that's why. Care to explain?

Re:Dual booting is from hell

[hexxeh]

not yet - "soon" is the official release, at the moment, for doom3 under linux.

hope you have an nvidia card...

oh, and go into your bios & force it to use LBA to access your hard disks rather than Auto, that should fix grub dual-boot problems with windows.

Re:Dual booting is from hell

[FictionPimp]

What problems are you having? It could be distro related. I have no problems using grub to boot windows or linux. Most distros even take care of setting that up for you. I Have 200gig drive with a 30 gig windows partition (for those games that wont run in winex yet). You just have to make sure the windows partition is the first partition on the drive.

My drives are usuually setup as Windows, swap, root, home. I started using fat32 for the windows partition because i found ntfs to be a bit of a pain to use from linux. (mainly write support). Other then that, I've noticed no problems.

Re:GJ

[AVee]

Good catch.

Re:Memory usage?

[The_Sock]

Speaking of old hardware, I'm in desperate need of an older Maxtor drive. 30GB, 5400 RPM drive (I believe) came out of an older HP. The model is 33073H3.

See, I have this drive, but a little power surge from a shitty PSU decided to fry the board on it (it was actually kinda neat... the CD burner popped open part way and then smoked when it happened.. it was kinda wild. Every component in PC became very dead.. NIC, MB, drives, everything).

Now I'm sure the data on the platters is fine, but the board has to be replaced.. And there's some data on there that my gf would really like back (some pics of her little brother who was killed in a car accident last year being the most important).

The only place I could find the drive online was charging $90 USD.. a little bit pricey, so I figured before going that route, I would see here if anyone has such a beast they would like to donate or sell for relatively cheap. Anyone have this drive sitting in a closet anywhere?