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Debian Announces Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. I have been waiting for this by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 1, Troll

    Currently, Gnome is simply too slow in reacting to interrupts like mouse movements or keyboard input. The lag between the physical action and the action on the screen is much greater than in KDE or (yech) Windows. 2.8 seems to have improved this a lot and I will be happy to finally have it on the base install.

    Unfortunately, the problems with security that Gnome has (namely unchecked buffer overruns) are still lurking there. So despite the speed which the C implementation gives, the boundary checking taketh away.

    So it goes.

    But compared to Windows, Linux (and especially Debian) is really secure.

  2. Is it weird? by abuendia · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good news?
    Kinda normal to have Gnome on Debian.

    --
    Moment of terror is the beginning of life !!!
  3. Re:Sarge Will Include GNOME 2.8 by kabloom · · Score: 1, Troll

    Debian only has releases once in a blue moon. July was a blue moon, therefore the Debian project started the release process by freezing the base system. The developers now figure that the release will get out the door when Sarge freezes over!