Version 1.0 was totally unstable for me. It was definitely rushed out. October Gnome is rock solid for me, havn't seen it crash in weeks. It is really really slick. Gnome has come from far behind (started a year later than KDE) and is now at least as usable as Windows and KDE. Definitely deserving of this award, and $30,000 will go REALLY far towards helping its continued growth towards the show stopping 2.0. Mozilla is also just as improved as Gnome, but another $30,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to what AOL is shuveling into that project.
Why does Corel not include both the competing KDE and GNOME desktops? Linux is about choice and by forcing one system on the user you are severely limiting to power and benefit of linux. The best course of action is to follow the lead of RedHat and (most?) other distributions and install both sets of libraries and allow the use to easily chose their setup at installation time.
What exactly are you searching for with Set@Home when you have absolutely no idea what the signal will look like.
Actually they have a damned good idea what it will look like, a narrow peak. These are not known to occur in nature, but any technology using the radio spectrum for communication will cause these.
Even presuming that somewhere out in the galaxy there is a planet that is noisier that ours, the chances of finding it while scanning across the infinite number of directions in the sky you can point a reciever is next to nil.
Um... they arn't scanning randomly, they are targeting specific regions of space that are most similar to ours, hence a higher chance a similar planet could exist.
We ALL know how RMS' wacky antics (like writing the GPL) have singlehandedly ruined such great projects like the linux kernel, GNOME and KDE, gcc, and countless others... oh wait... maybe we have that backwards, just perhaps RMS started the ball rolling and therefore has done more than anyone else to PROMOTE free software. Kindly remove your head from your ass.
of course no one would use this new version the current, free one already exists. Not to mention the fact that if you "just" cut out the others code, you would be loosing the vast majority of the system. Yeah right.
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On the contrary I am saying that GNOME shouldn't be slandered because it doesn't have the magic number 2.0. These number games are stupid and pointless, evalute software based on its features not its version number. Nowhere did I say to forgive GNOME because of its late start, for I don't think there is anything to forgive (It is rock solid and functional for me). But it is just plain STUPID to expect GNOME to have a 2.0 release out a few fscking months after 1.0. Silly.
GNOME is a viable desktop for end users right now, its not just marketing. I use it daily and havn't had it crash in as long as I can remeber. Weeks. I like its configurabilty and flexabily more than any other interface (no, its not just a pretty face)
"You always read about Miguel de Icaza going to this press conference or that GNOME presentation. But you never hear anything from the KDE guys. Maybe it's because they're too busy coding and getting things to work right."
If you would bother to check on the GNOME status reports you would have noticed that there were over 1000 CVS commits between August 30-September 7. Does that sound like the GNOME hackers are sitting on their hands?
Also, anyone else notice the lack of a GNOME2.0 pre Alpha version? I have.
1) Version numbers are arbitrary and almost meaningless. 2) GNOME had a much later start than KDE 3) 1.0.50 (roughly equivelant to KDE 1.1.2 in amount of changes) is well on its way towards release. Bugs are being rapidly slayed as we speak. 4) GNOME 2.0 is already on the discussion table
Why people want to spread missinformed FUD about free software projects is beyond me. GNOME and KDE are both thriving and competing and will be for a long time to come, deal with it.
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Version 1.0 was totally unstable for me. It was definitely rushed out. October Gnome is rock solid for me, havn't seen it crash in weeks. It is really really slick. Gnome has come from far behind (started a year later than KDE) and is now at least as usable as Windows and KDE. Definitely deserving of this award, and $30,000 will go REALLY far towards helping its continued growth towards the show stopping 2.0. Mozilla is also just as improved as Gnome, but another $30,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to what AOL is shuveling into that project.
Why does Corel not include both the competing KDE and GNOME desktops? Linux is about choice and by forcing one system on the user you are severely limiting to power and benefit of linux. The best course of action is to follow the lead of RedHat and (most?) other distributions and install both sets of libraries and allow the use to easily chose their setup at installation time.
Have you even read seti's plans? Obviously not.
What exactly are you searching for with Set@Home when you have absolutely no idea what the signal will look like.
Actually they have a damned good idea what it will look like, a narrow peak. These are not known to occur in nature, but any technology using the radio spectrum for communication will cause these.
Even presuming that somewhere out in the galaxy there is a planet that is noisier that ours, the chances of finding it while scanning across the infinite number of directions in the sky you can point a reciever is next to nil.
Um... they arn't scanning randomly, they are targeting specific regions of space that are most similar to ours, hence a higher chance a similar planet could exist.
We ALL know how RMS' wacky antics (like writing the GPL) have singlehandedly ruined such great projects like the linux kernel, GNOME and KDE, gcc, and countless others... oh wait... maybe we have that backwards, just perhaps RMS started the ball rolling and therefore has done more than anyone else to PROMOTE free software. Kindly remove your head from your ass.
6. Multiple Language Bindings. C, C++, Perl, and many many more than i can think of right now :)
is that as Gnome is adopted by companies, who do you think they will turn to for support? Hmmm?
of course no one would use this new version the current, free one already exists. Not to mention the fact that if you "just" cut out the others code, you would be loosing the vast majority of the system. Yeah right.
On the contrary I am saying that GNOME shouldn't be slandered because it doesn't have the magic number 2.0. These number games are stupid and pointless, evalute software based on its features not its version number. Nowhere did I say to forgive GNOME because of its late start, for I don't think there is anything to forgive (It is rock solid and functional for me). But it is just plain STUPID to expect GNOME to have a 2.0 release out a few fscking months after 1.0. Silly.
GNOME is a viable desktop for end users right now, its not just marketing. I use it daily and havn't had it crash in as long as I can remeber. Weeks. I like its configurabilty and flexabily more than any other interface (no, its not just a pretty face)
How do FUD posts like this get moderated up?
"You always read about Miguel de Icaza going to this press conference or that GNOME presentation. But you never hear anything from the KDE guys. Maybe it's because they're too busy coding and getting things to work right."
If you would bother to check on the GNOME status reports you would have noticed that there were over 1000 CVS commits between August 30-September 7. Does that sound like the GNOME hackers are sitting on their hands?
Also, anyone else notice the lack of a GNOME2.0 pre Alpha version? I have.
1) Version numbers are arbitrary and almost meaningless. 2) GNOME had a much later start than KDE 3) 1.0.50 (roughly equivelant to KDE 1.1.2 in amount of changes) is well on its way towards release. Bugs are being rapidly slayed as we speak. 4) GNOME 2.0 is already on the discussion table
Why people want to spread missinformed FUD about free software projects is beyond me. GNOME and KDE are both thriving and competing and will be for a long time to come, deal with it.
Yeah, little 200 line frontends like the Gimp, Gnumeric, Mozilla, Balsa, G3D, GIDE... good point.