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Gnome 2.10 Released
Mad_Rain writes "The new version of Gnome (you know, the desktop of many Linux users?) has just been released. You can even try it out with a LiveCD (bittorrent link). There is a video player and CD-ripping utility included, and the all-important new splash screen!"
Try to go for a higher IQ in the next life and try again.
If GNOME is the nigger of desktop environments, I am all for affirmative action on all desktops.
Isn't Knoppix primarily a KDE live CD? Isn't it Gnome that has inspired this user to want to try Linux? If this is so, why would he want to try something based around KDE?
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Since GNOME changes its default applications every couple of releases (Galeon --> Epiphany and so on) I think GNOME is doing a good job in spreading many different applications for each task. ;-D
You're right. That is JUST YOU. Your view is not held by anyone else, so shut the fuck up and fuck off and die.
Here's a few other things that you don't get in KDE:
A consistent user interface
Low memory use
An email/contacts management system that works
A web browser that can render most pages properly
The future list is nothing to get excited about, GNOME is so far away from competing with the OSX and WinXP desktops it's not even funny.
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The default screenshots look like Windows95, and the list of new features are just pathetic. Is there a group of graphic designers associated with this project? It surely doesn't look like it at all.
You know you don't have much to say in the new features dept. when one of the first things you mention is new desktop background tiles!
Goodness gracious
- sigs are for wimps.
I'll bite.
Ive tried to use Gnome several times. It's the default WM of Red Hat. It always crashes on me and it always completely dies, never to be recussitated after some amount of time.
Pros:
Pretty, polished looking on the surface.
Cons:
Difficult to use and configure.
Unstable as hell.
Impossible to maintain or repair after multiple updates.
Not a troll, a perfectly reasonable data point. And when such data points out number the opposing viewpoint two or three to one, you know there just might be some kernel of truth to it.
I admire your work, but you lost me in between the 1.4 and the 2.0 releases.
Somehow you got into competition with KDE and you forgot your simplicity roots. I have multiple linux machines, some slow, some recent. None are now desktop GNOME compatible with each other.
If I may suggest, go load OS/2 and take a look at presentation manager. Look at it twice if need be. Its simple and it's fully OOP and takes up less than four megs of ram. If you don't understand the concept of WorkPlace Shell, then ask your conections at IBM.
Meanwhile, waiting for you to improve. I use XFCE4 on my desktops/P150 laptop. K3b, dia, anjuta, bluefish etc. all work seamlessly and great.
Just a suggestion,
Enjoy.
It's just the normal noises in here.