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Gnome 2.14 Released
joe_bruin writes "Beware the Ides of March... the Gnome people have announced the release of Gnome 2.14, right on time to meet their 6 month release schedule. See what's new in this release, as well as the release notes. New features include many more searching options, fast user switching, and speed increases to all the apps you know and love." From the release notes: "Just as you would tune your car, our skilled engineers have strived to tune many parts of GNOME to be as fast as possible. Several important components of the GNOME desktop are now measurably faster, including text rendering, memory allocation, and numerous individual applications. Faster font rendering and memory allocation benefit all GNOME and GTK+ based applications without the need for recompilation. Some applications have received special attention to make sure they are performing at their peak."
No kidding. Maybe the submitter got hit by something and was knocked out overnight, so he thinks it's still the Ides of March. Or more likely, the "editor" is so fucking clueless that he doesn't even know what that phrase means and didn't, you know, edit it out.
This guy's the limit!
HALT. EVEN EMAcS there ar:e some
Off topic I know, but a friend of mine reminded me of this recently...
It's pronounced "nome". Not "guh-nome". Likewise, GNU is pronounced "new" or "Gee Inn Ewe", not "guh-new". We don't pronounce GIMP as "guh-imp", Gnumeric as "guh-numeric", or grip as "guh-rip".
Yes, there are some things that are not phoenetic, like gxine, which would be sensically pronounced as "gee-zine", or gcalc which could be pronounced as "gee-calc", though it would be better served to just say "Gnome Calculator" instead.
Pronouncing "guh-nome" in front of people that you're trying to convince to try Linux makes you look dorky, and it hurts your argument in trying to convince them.