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Gnome 2.10 Sneak Peek
spectre_be writes "Davyd Madeley wrote a Sneak Peek at Gnome 2.10, scheduled for release on the March 9, 2005. Looks like the new release-policy is starting to pay of, as several existing utilities get enhancements and a couple of new ones are added. Also (finally) a mozilla-stylee type-ahead find has been implemented in Gnome's Open/Save dialog. Together with OpenOffice.org 2.0's scheduled release and Novell's Mono coming up to speed, will 2005 prove to be the year of Gnome?" Update: 01/18 01:40 GMT by T : Oops - the "2-point" got chopped off in the headline; still a while until GNOME 10.
You can see Suns influence on gnome here!
My pics.
Wow what year is it? I haven't checked out Gnome for a while and I missed 7 versions already!
I'm so behind the times using Debian here.. I only have 2.8, and here 10 is released? Wow. I thought all the "Debian is old" jokes were stupid, but now I know for sure that they were right all along.
They'll catching up to win95/OS8 in no time flat!
/I'm sorry... no 'wow' factor at all. Maybe they should get Enlightenment's people to build up a visually appealing gnome demo?
Hello?! What's 2 in binary?
might i also thank the grandparent post for giving me this opportunity to boost my karma.
That man tried to kill mah Daddy
Ummm... you misspelled "Fischer-Price".
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
With years of slashdot stories asking "Will XXXX finally be the year of Y?", will 2005 finally be the year of slashdot retiring that stupid phrase?
See, I totally agree with the grandparent poster. If you want everyone to pronounce GNU - GUH-NEW, you spell it accordingly. I have, and always will, say GNU - GEE-EN-EWE, why? BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING ACRONYM! I pronounce it in the most sensical, straight forward way, because acronyms are meant (in theory) to simplify things. I don't give a fuck what RMS thinks. If he wants us to pronounce it Guh-new, maybe he should have named GNU something that, when acronym-ated, sounds more like Guh-New. GNU is three letters, G, N, and U. I pronounce it accordingly. RMS started a great thing, and seems to be an...eh...interesting guy...but i'm pretty fed up with Geeks, engineers, et al forcing their God complexes on us and dictating the RIGHT WAY to do things. Free software is about Freedom, right? Well i reserve the right to be free in my choice of acronym pronunciation. Thank you, and Goodnight.
Oh no!!! not the.... god forbidden.... command line... aaaaaaah how do I get rid of this one gateway to all the functionality of my system... how indeed. What are you, on drugs? Please define everything.
Lol... I meant "Fisher Price".
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
but it still doesn't look as snazzy or as futuristic as XP...
Futuristic!?! You're saying that one day the teletubbies with invade and conquer Earth?
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
gnu Audio pronunciation of "gnu" ( P )
Pronunciation Key (noo, nyoo)
The "g" is silent, just like in gnome.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
ACK if you're going to deride the editors, at least make sure you properly proof your own post. Two things right off the bat:
- You neglected to remove the word "the" from the first sentence of the revised article.
- "... each submission would be higher quality" should probably read "each submission would be of higher quality."
While your general point (that the story's grammar and spelling are abysmal) is correct, all you have done is proven that editing is harder than it looks.
I am sure there are mistakes in this post too. Please don't bother trying to find them.
Revised, this reads:
spectre_be writes "Davyd Madeley wrote a sneak peek at Gnome 2.10, which is scheduled for release on the March 9, 2005. It looks like Gnome's new release policy is starting to pay off, as several existing utilities get enhancements and a couple new ones are added. Also, a Mozilla-style type-ahead find feature has finally been implemented in Gnome's open and save dialogs. Together with OpenOffice.org 2.0's scheduled release and Novell's Mono coming up to speed, will 2005 prove to be the year of Gnome?"
Why don't you try proof reading some of your own shit before YOU submit it!
And before you correct any mistakes in my post, including the fact that I started this sentence with the word "And", let me save you the trouble and let you know that I don't give a shit.