Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8

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Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 1, 2004 @12:31AM from the catching-up-is-the-best-revenge dept.

El Cubano writes "A recent posting to the debian-devel-announce mailing list announces that Sarge will release with GNOME 2.8. From the announcement: 'After requests and a detailed proposal from the GNOME team, we accepted an upload of GNOME 2.8 into sid, and, via the usual mechanisms, into sarge. We should mention that the release team was running out of objections to GNOME 2.8 in unstable that the GNOME team hasn't satisfactorily addressed; this, and the fact that they have demonstrated good reaction times of late are the main reasons why we're approving it despite the timing.'"

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The obligatory.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 00:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In Korea, GNOME is only for Old People.. :P
MARK AS TROLL - GOATSE LINK by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 01:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Read subject.
Other Signs of the Apocalypse by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 01:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I Darl McBride spotted in public wearing I (HEART) TUX t shirt.
II Steve Ballmer wears underarm deoderant to developer confereince.
III Steve Jobs decides to 'go with the flow' and adopts windows.
IV Slashdot story makes it to 42 comments without gratuitous Yakov Smirnoff (Clever transposition of "In Reality X VERB Y" to "In FORMER COMMUNIST STATE Y VERB X"
V Duke Nukem Forever released to much fanfare.
VI Slashdot story makes it to 45 comments without gratuitous Beowolf cluster comment.
VII Bush wears "I SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE--IF BOTH CHICKS ARE HOT" armless t-shirt to Press Conference.
VIII Kerry spotted with head out of ass.
IX Slashdot story makes it to 57 comments without reference to NetCraft mortality statistics for Biological Entity X.
X Debian produces a modern binary package tree without senselessly bloated binary packages that aren't a compatibility nightmare.
Re:FYI by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 01:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thanks! I needed a laugh this morning.
Re:Is it weird? - moderator abuse by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 02:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Someone moderated the parent as Troll. This was probably appropriate. A few minutes later, someone else moderated it as "Underrated", which was clearly not appropriate and is probably an attempt to make this troll more visible without being accountable for it (that's the problem with the "underrated" and "overrated" mods).

Maybe there is some valuable information or some more interesting meaning that I have missed in the parent post. In that case, maybe that would not be a troll (please enlighten me on that). But even in that case, the correct moderation would have been "interesting" or "informative" or whatever, but not "underrated". It's about time that we get rid of these two mods that are abused far too often.
Re:I have been waiting for this by jrcamp · 2004-12-01 02:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Unfortunately, the problems with security that Gnome has (namely unchecked buffer overruns) are still lurking there.

Why don't you submit a bug of these supposed overruns that you've found then? This post is just a general troll anyway.
IN KOREA, ONLY OLD PEOPLE USE SARGE WITH GNOME 2.8 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-01 02:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

n/t
Re:I have been waiting for this by barrkel · 2004-12-01 02:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In my experience, X is amazingly slower than Windows for all UI stuff - including percieved mouse and keyboard latency.