The GNOME Desktop 2.4 Release Candidate 1: “Kublai”, is
available for immediate download on ftp ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.90/sources/
tar.gz:125M total
tar.bz2: 92M 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
[1]
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
[1] There has been some confusion, referred to in this document,
about the software we are shipping with the GNOME 2.4 Desktop
release. The canonical reference is our modules list <<A
HREF=”http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/modules/>”>http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/modules/>;
and for deeper information <<A
HREF=”http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1195>”>http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1195>;,
our final 2.4 modules announcement, which documents the decisions
pertaining to Galeon, Epiphany, GNOME System Tools, and other
modules proposed for 2.4.
—
linux.conf.au 2004:
Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/
“I’m coding ‘gless’ right now … I’m not living up
to the motto ‘gless is gmore’, I should have started with gmore.
;-)” – Havoc Pennington,
1998