GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 2
GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 2:
“Subotai”
The GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 2: “Subotai”, is available for
immediate download on ftp ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.7/sources/
tar.gz: 124M total
tar.bz2: 91M total
Dear Faithful GNOME Users
You may remember the raucous excitement and pure joy of previous
GNOME beta releases; wild claims of “ready for human consumption”
and “won’t crash… much”. You may remember sheer delight at the
opportunity to try new versions of GNOME without a high probability
of turning your desktop inside out, trashing your old settings or
spending hours working why your fonts didn’t work. Ahh, days of
yore.
Due to the huge success of our time-based release and ‘always
buildable, testable and usable from CVS’ policies, this GNOME beta
does not fulfill the ‘dangerous fruit’ attraction of past beta
releases. In fact, the 2.3 series has been a thoroughly stable and
comfortable working environment for hackers and dedicated testers
throughout its development.
You may well ask, “Hey, if this beta release isn’t going to kill
my hard disk, why should I care?” Sayamindu Dasgupta asked a
similar question, and this is what he found out:
http://www.ilug-cal.org/GNOME_2_4.html
GNOME 2.4 will be our most exciting release to date, with
incredible new software, cool new features throughout the desktop,
great language support, slick performance improvements, and the
breath of fresh air you’ve come to expect from the desktop that
“just works”.
Please enjoy this beta, and help us find and straighten out the
remaining few kinks for our final GNOME 2.4.0 release in early
September. For more info, please see our 2.3 start page:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/
Thanks,
- The GNOME Release Team
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