eWeek: GNOME 2.6 Marks Smooth Upgrade | Linux Today

eWeek: GNOME 2.6 Marks Smooth Upgrade

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 21, 2004

“With version 2.6, the GNOME Project’s namesake desktop
environment is smoother than ever. The new release will make a
great upgrade for Linux and Unix systems, such as Red Hat Inc.’s
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris, that
use GNOME as their default graphical interface.

“eWEEK Labs compiled GNOME 2.6 from source code on a machine
running Red Hat’s Fedora Core 1, and we were immediately struck by
how much faster GNOME’s Nautilus file manager has become…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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