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GNOME 2.12 Previewed

Posted by timothy on from the sweetness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Davyd Madeley has completed his Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12. Scheduled for release on September 7th, 2005, GNOME 2.12 has picked up a new theme, some features popularised by Apple's System 7, some new multimedia tools and plenty of bug-fixes."

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  1. Re:BSD ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I too have found things to be much the same as you've described. I think there is a consistency (nearly to the point of obsession) in all *BSD system interfaces, libraries and toolchain (eg: your example with make vs gmake).

    Consistent. Clean. Small. Modular.

    All buzzwords everywhere else, but in BSD land: these things are taken for granted. It clears one's thoughts. If, of course, you know what you're doing :)

  2. Re:Still ugly fonts - this works too! by drsquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, Linux is ready for the desktop.

    Do you have any instructions for those of us who don't know what the hell any of htat means? I mean seriously, how would anyone who wasn't an X developer ever work out to do that?

    I don't know why you can't just click on a menu somewhere.

  3. Re:BSD ? by Wdomburg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's hard to be impressed with "paraoid-level security" when one has dealt with OpenSSL and OpenSSH have had fifty three vulnerabilities between the two of them over the past five years: CVE-2000-0525, CVE-2000-0887, CVE-2000-1169, CVE-2001-0361, CVE-2001-0529, CVE-2001-0816, CVE-2001-0872, CVE-2001-1029, CVE-2001-1380 , CVE-2001-1382, CVE-2002-0059, CVE-2002-0083, CVE-2002-0575, CVE-2002 -0639, CVE-2002-0640, CVE-2002-0765, CAN-1999-0661, CAN-2000-0535, CAN -2001-0572, CAN-2001-1459, CAN-2001-1483, CAN-2001-1507, CAN-2003-0190, CAN-2003-0386, CAN-2003-0682, CAN-2003-0693, CAN-2003-0695, CAN-2003-0786, CAN-2003-0787, CAN-2004-0175, CAN-2004-1653, CAN-2004-2069, CVE-1999-0428, CVE-2001-1141, CVE-2003- 0078, CAN-2000-0535, CAN-2002-0655, CAN-2002-0656, CAN-2002-0657, CAN- 2002-0659, CAN-2002-1568, CAN-2003-0131, CAN-2003-0147, CAN-2003-0543, CAN-2003-0544,