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GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line

Posted by timothy on from the are-you-a-version? dept.

stovicek writes "GNOME 2.30 was originally intended to coincide with GNOME 3.0 — a massive cleanup and rethinking of the popular desktop. However, GNOME 3.0 is delayed for at least another release, which leaves GNOME 2.30 as most likely the last version in a series stretching back almost a decade. [...] 2.30 will probably be the final version of the 2.0 series. For those who were around for GNOME 2.0 back in 2000, the 2.30 release stands as evidence of how far GNOME in general and the free desktop in particular have come in the last decade in usability and design. If you do a search for images of early GNOME releases and compare the results with 2.30, you can have no doubt that, although GNOME sometimes tends to over-simplify, its improvements over the last decade remain unmistakable."

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  1. Re:Oh good! by bmo · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's called the "Lesser" GPL for a reason.

    Also, unless you get mono exclusively from Novell, you are (potentially) infringing on Microsoft intellectual property. And Gnome has been adopting mono like it doesn't matter.

    Yes, Gnome is less free now. Gnome fans totally miss the irony.

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    BMO

  2. Re:Sounds like a KDE-type cleanup by mrmeval · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Over stupidify" defines guhnome but it's not as bad as KayDeeE

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    I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
  3. Re:I think a lot of KDE users disappeared with KDE by Bronster · · Score: 0, Troll

    This. I miss the KDE that was nice and easy to use, but Gnome got good enough right about the time KDE got shit. Maybe if I wasn't on Ubuntu mostly I'd consider switching back now, but Kubuntu is still the poor cousin, and Ubuntu has enough problems with consistency without having to worry about more of them.