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:BSD/GNOME!

[Richard_at_work]

Like lephors being taken to a far away island to die together, gnome has joined with BSD.

the "G" in GNOME stands for gay

[sakura the mc]

BoM SKwad (7:31:45): gnome is for dudes whos finger has touched another mans asshole more than once

kde owns

Re:Thats nice

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you deny reality? The only people left using Gnome are the full on, right-wing GNU hackers who wish that upstart Linus hadn't stole the hackers away from the one-true HURD and still believe that Qt is "not free"; sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "La la la I can't hear you" when it's pointed out that Qt is GPL and GTK+ is only LGPL which makes Qt more Free than their beloved Gnome.

Gnome lost the desktop war to KDE the moment it began to remove useful features and strip out functionality at the behest of Sun.

Dual booting is from hell

[samberdoo]

I would like to see better support for two operating systems on the same box. I have to use Microsoft products for work, but I would prefer some flavor of linux for personal use. However, XP and linux (as well as GNOME) don't want to coexist on my PC even when I put them on seperate drives. This is partly a windows problem, but linux is at fault too. I admit that most people don't need this capability, but it shouldn't be so hard for the average user to do. Does Doom 3 run under GNOME?

Re:Thats nice

[daemonc]

If by "lost the desktop war" you mean "became the default desktop on every major distro", then yes.

Re:Memory usage?

[Anonymous Coward]

Right now linux is slower than XP, no amount of weenie whining will change that :)

Re:Thats nice

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone please mod this up. It's the truth. Gnome is a pointless project that holds back the Linux desktop.

because

[paranode]

it finally has some new features that kde has had for several revisions, so that makes it worth checking out i guess.

Linux without software

[codepunk]

Shutup apple fan boys osx is nothing more than linux
gnome without any damn software. Load up a linux distro what do you have? a ton of software. Load up a osx box what do you have? a crappy version of ie.

Re:Memory usage?

[AstroDrabb]

This isn't flamebait

OK troll.

Firefox is slower and heaver than IE

Huh? Firefox has always been faster then IE for me, I an recall reading a lot of similar /. post. Firefox is Heavier? Not really. Look at this screenshot of IE and Firefox 1.0pre both open to /.. About 1MB of difference.

I can run Office, IE and Outlook together SMOOTHLY on a WinXP box with 128M RAM

I call BS. I had two family members that I upgraded to MS Win XP and they both only had 128MB. WinXP was dog slow. It took ages for windows to popup and move around. Even trying to bring up the explorer.exe file manager was a pain. Once both systems were upgraded to 256MB, it was much more usable. This is the same for a modern Linux distro. A little sluggish with 128MB for KDE/Gnome, but very usable with 256MB. I do agree with OOo.org. It is still a little slow and a bit of a memory hog. Though it does run on many platforms wich MS never needed to worry about with MS Office. My brother-in-law has an older laptop with a slow hard drive, 256 MB and Fedor Core 1. He has no problems with running Firefox, Thunderbird/Evolution, Photoshop (Cross-over office), Azureus (Java bitttorrent client) and a music app open all at the same time. Linux has a much better VM systems then WinXP for systems with low memory. Once WinXP starts to swap, your dead.

Otherwise we'd have the speed advantage, and Linux's flagship products wouldn't be heavier and slower than Microsoft's.

Oh, stop trolling. Where are your benchmarks? For every MS benchmark out there showing MS Widnows to be "faster" then Linux, there is a Linux benchmark showing Linux to be "faster" then MS Windows. From my experience Linux is faster for many server tasks then MS Windows, however the MS WinXP desktop overall is a little faster then an average full-featured Linux desktop because MS tied many thing down into the kernel.

With WinXP, you are limited to one crappy desktop (explorer.exe) that locks just about every file it touches (requiring you to kill and restart it in task manager) and crashes on me about 5 times a week (WinXP does not crash on me, but explorer.exe certainly does). With Linux, I can use full-featured desktops like KDE/Gnome or a ligher desktop like XFCE4 which still has greate features. For a system with 128MB or less memory, there are desktops like fluxbox, blackbox, wiamea and others.

Question

[MasTRE]

I like GNOME. I like KDE. They're great. That said, is it a rule that we must post here every time a new revision of each comes out? Is it that critical? Are all releases of GNOME and KDE exceptional? Every single one of them? I mean, there's a place for freshmeat, and there's a place for /. Let's not confuse the two.

Re:Everyone has lost their minds

[rocketfairy]

Wizards and dummy-versions of everything like the (currently in XP) Control Panel that can be in classic mode or the new re-organized gay-mode.

So, now gay guys get crap for ... bad design? I mean, I know we're godless sodomites, and I know everyone thinks we molest kids routinely, but have you been in a store lately? Breeders fucking suck at design.

Go with KDE instead, it is better

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

KDE is technically superior and has a much more professional feel. Gnome is slow, locks up and crashes a lot. That is why I switched to and stayed with KDE, a proven solution.

Gnome only exists because of a licensing spat over the Qt Toolkit. Qt wasn't "free" enough. Yeah, RMS and company, it is called the "real world" come live in it for a while. Companies need to make money, people need to get paid. Want to debate that with me? Pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat, and gas for my car comrade and then we'll talk.

Trolltech did the right thing, now it is (well past) time for the Gnome people to do the right thing and fold their work into KDE instead of dividing the community.

Re:Go with KDE instead, it is better

[snakeplissken]

christianity only exists because of a licensing spat over 'being holy', judaism denied the existence of the 'messiah' on earth, yeah jesus and company, it is called 'the real world' come live in it for while, want to debate that with me? pay for a place for me to live, food for me to eat and then we'll talk

the jews were right, now it is (well past) time for christians to do the right thing and convert to judaism instead of dividing the community

Re:Once again, I must complain about fonts

[Anonymous Coward]

YHBT. YHL. HAND.

Love,
rd_syringe (aka Overly Critical Guy aka bonch)

I bet windows copies this ! (humor)

[Anonymous Coward]

What's New In GNOME 2.8

For each file-type there is a default application that will open the file when you double-click on the it. However, other applications might also be able to open the file type, so you can right-click and choose "Open With" to select one of these applications.

Wow ! This is so cool, I bet windows copies this. (the losers!)