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GUADEC 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-up-now dept.

Elleo writes "GUADEC highlights the capabilities and direction of GNOME — the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices. GUADEC also features discussions of the future of Free Software and Open Source development in general. The GUADEC 2006 conference has begun today, with live streams available for those unavailable to visit the conference. A schedule of core talks is also available."

13 comments

  1. Worm-up Weekend by aymanh · · Score: 1

    Although GUADEC's core is Gnome, the warm-up weekend schedule contained many interesting sessions for Mozilla and OpenOffice.org localizers, but unfortunately live streams are only available for the core schedule.

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    1. Re:Worm-up Weekend by baadger · · Score: 1

      unfortunately live streams are only available for the core schedule. ...supposedly, they all seem to be slashdotted atm. What timezone is the schedule using?

    2. Re:Worm-up Weekend by elleomea · · Score: 2, Informative

      The schedule is in GMT+1. The streams have been unreliable all day, apparently due to a poor network connection out from the event. Archives of talks should be available in the near future though (at http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/guadec/2006/)

  2. GNOMEs Direction by remin8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been using GNOME for the last 2 years (with ubuntu). Before that it was all KDE. Initially, I though GNOME was a little unrefined, however, month-by-month I am seeing really great inovations taking place with the GNOME desktop project. The nice thing is it seems GNOME has a goal in mind and is headed right for it.

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    1. Re:GNOMEs Direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But, like, nothing but trivial usability and interface changes and a couple from-scratch rewrites have gone on in GNOME for the last two years except a couple new panel applets or something. What exactly is this goal you think they have in mind? Note that I say this as a GNOME desktop user of eight or so years.

    2. Re:GNOMEs Direction by tolan-b · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Polish. It's just lovely. I'll grant you there hasn't been much move toward lots of shiny features, but to be honest that's the reason I prefer Gnome. It does what I need simply and well.

    3. Re:GNOMEs Direction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's just a shame that any speed improvements in the recent versions of GNOEM were all eaten up by GTK switching to using Cairo exclusively. Cairo fucking sucks... it's a performance hog.

      Yet again, the GTK fuckwits kill performance.

  3. THE user environment? by nebbian · · Score: 1

    GNOME -- the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices.

    Seems a little bit arrogant doesn't it? Quite apart from all those using OS X or Windows, what about KDE?

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  4. alternate interpretation.... by Trelane · · Score: 1
    GNOME -- the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices, not the little guys that run around in your garden.
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  5. I cannot wait. (Seriously!) by RowboatRobot · · Score: 1

    I hear... (And I've seen a seminar description about this) ... that all sorts of speed-ups and inefficiency cuts are coming this time around. Guadec '06 is supposedly going to make Gnome very, very quick and clean-cut through the revelation and elimination of many bottlenecks. I really can't wait. I know this is a pipe dream, but I bet in a few months after this, Gnome's going to take up 2/3rds the memory and system resources. Cross your fingers folks, this meeting is going to be speeding up linux boxes all over the world.