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GNOME 2.24 Released

Posted by timothy on from the ekiga-has-the-best-screenshots dept.

thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.

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  1. Huge number of bugs? by Cthefuture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't it weird how developers (myself included) consider it a good thing that they fixed a whole bunch of bugs?

    Personally I know it feels good to fix bugs because it feels like you're making the product perfect and somehow that feels like "development". However, the reality is that it would be better to have no bugs in the first place.

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    1. Re:Huge number of bugs? by fractic · · Score: 4, Insightful

      However, the reality is that it would be better to have no bugs in the first place.

      Sadly the reality is that it's just too hard to write such complicated software without bugs.

    2. Re:Huge number of bugs? by wanderingknight · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Or downright impossible. I believe that's one of the things FOSS is based on ;-)

    3. Re:Huge number of bugs? by Kjella · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not impossible, but quite likely you'd maybe hit Gnome 1.0 in these days after 10+ years of development. And everybody else would be using the betas/unstable versions because they're soooo much faster and more featureful despite the odd bug. In fact, the FLOSS market seems to be going after exactly its own pace - live on the bleeding edge? You can do that. Stay with the ultra-stabile? You can do that and so the bug level is pretty much what you want it to be. In short, most people wouldn't want the bugfree version if one existed. It's too extreme in the "of these three things, pick any two" department.

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    4. Re:Huge number of bugs? by MojoMagic · · Score: 5, Insightful

      As a software developer I feel confident in saying this:

      If your software "doesn't have bugs", it either doesn't do much or you just aren't looking hard enough.

      (I'm not pointing any fingers...)