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A Look at GNOME 2.14
An anonymous reader writes "Gnome has a nice preview of their newest version 2.14 posted which should be hitting the streets around the 15th of March. From the article: "As well as new features and more polish, developers have been working around the clock to squeeze more performance out of the most commonly used applications and libraries. This is a review of some of the most shiny work that has gone into the upcoming GNOME release."
Before they get slashdotted: http://www.gnome.org.nyud.net:8080/~davyd/gnome-2- 14/
Every Ubuntu release is timed so that it arrives shortly after the release of gnome. This is done so that the Ubuntu release features the latest and greatest of what gnome has to offer.
Oh, a lesson in history from Mr. I'm my own grandpa.
Now, for the confusing part. Why was their previous allocator so lame compared to malloc()?
Because glibc's malloc() is actually a pretty fast and scalable piece of code for a general-purpose memory allocator. Even GNOME's new special-purpose allocator only gets about twice the performance of glibc's.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
How do I use that with Ubuntu instead of OpenSuSE?
.Enable the universe repository (see AddingRepositoriesHowto)
/etc/X11/X with a symlink to /usr/bin/Xgl
/usr/bin/Xgl /etc/X11/X
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
Downoad the latest ubuntu CD, then:
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2. Make sure that you have the latest mesa, libglitz1 and libglitz-glx1, xserver-xgl
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa libglitz1 libglitz-glx1 xserver-xgl
3. Install compiz-kde and/or compiz-gnome depending on your desktop
sudo apt-get install compiz-gnome
4. Replace
sudo ln -sf
5. Close all applications and restart gdm (This will log you out!)
sudo
6. Log in, then in a terminal start compiz and the Gnome window decorator (do NOT use sudo here)
compiz --replace gconf decoration wobbly fade minimize move place resize scale switcher cube rotate zoom
gnome-window-decorator
Leave out the gconf plugin if you don't have compiz-gnome installed
7. Add these commands to ~/.gnomerc if you want this on every login (which you probably do)
Taken from the Ubuntu xgl howto wiki
My pics.
KDE is focused in revamping the whole KDE infrastructure with KDE 4, even during the kde 3.5 development some people said 3.5 would be unstable because too many developers where focusing in KDE 4 (kde 3.5.1 is great for me).
So you won't see any kde news for a while except for KDE 4. KDE 3.5 is everything what KDE 3.X has to offer. Of course people could continue developing 3.5, but they're focusing in kde 4....there'll be news in the kde 3.5 field - bugfix releases, updates from individual programs like koffice or kopete - but overall, you won't see any "earthbreaking" change in kde 3.5.
Some gnome developers think that there should not be a gnome 3 - at least, there's zero lines of "gnome 3 code" right now - and that the gnome 2 is OK and that it's much better to do small improvements to the current architecture. This is a big error IMO, but the fact is that until kde 4 is released it will be gnome who gets more attention and releases more attractive things.
From gnomejournal:
VStrider.