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The GNOME Journal, March Edition

Posted by timothy on from the gnomulation dept.

jimmy_dean writes "The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. This regularly published online magazine features original content and commentary for and by the GNOME Community. This issue covers some technical articles, including Audio CD Ripping/Burning by Ken Vandine and Simplified Package Management in Ubuntu Hoary by John Meuser. Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.10, we include a tour of 2.10 by Sayamindu Dasgupta and also the evolution of Evolution 2.2 by Jorge O. Castro. Also, art.gnome.org gets a face lift as told by Link Dupont."

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  1. bloat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They seem to be consirned about the bloat; they mentioned it toward the top of the first article.

    GTK+ 2.6 has also received some significant performance improvements.

    I doubt I'd find the improvements "significant". It seems that every major release of anything claims to have a big speed boost. I'm consistently disappointed. At least they're trying though. Admitting they have a problem is the first step.

    However, the really major performance related changes in GTK+ will come with GTK+ 2.8 (to be included in GNOME 2.12). GTK 2.8 is slated to use Cairo for all the rendering and drawing related stuff, and with Cairo we will have the option of using hardware accelerated OpenGL for the rendering (using the Glitz backend).

    Does that mean anything to those of us using free software graphics drivers?