GNOME 2.25.3 Development Release
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Wow we are so late this time — probably some Debian blood is still
flowing through my veins — but this is really worth it, 2.25.3 is
here and there is goodness overflowing.
This is the third development release towards our 2.26 release that
will happen in March 2009. By now, development is well under way, [...]

Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child’s XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.
“The resources made [...]

The GNOME Foundation Board regretfully announces that Jeff Waugh will
be stepping down from the board in order to focus on work and other
projects. The board thanks Jeff for his years of service to the board
and the community, and wishes him success in his future work both
inside and outside of GNOME. Jeff leaves big shoes to [...]

GNOME 2.25.2 Development Release
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Early Xmas present! 2.25.2 is here. This is the second development release
towards our 2.26 release that will happen in March 2009. By now, development
is well under way, and we’ve already made good progress on some of the
goals that we’ve set ourselves for 2.26 (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals).
Keep up the good work !
To compile GNOME 2.25.2, [...]

GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor.
GParted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within.
This GParted 0.4.1 release rolls back /dev/mapper/* detection.
The problem was that all /dev/mapper/* entries were added to the device list including LVM partitions.  This was confusing behaviour to GParted [...]

GNOME 2.24.2 Stable Release
This is the second update to GNOME 2.24. It contains many fixes for
important bugs that directly affect our users, documentation updates
and also a large number of updated translations. Many thanks to all
the contributors who worked hard on delivering those changes in time.
We hope it will help people feel better in their daily [...]

The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the
GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran
Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran
Canaria. The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to
intensify momentum [...]

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It made its big debut in GNOME 2.24, which was released in September. It is built on top of Telepathy, a sophisticated messaging infrastructure framework that is being developed by Nokia and Collabora under the umbrella of the FreeDesktop.org initiative.

Read more at [...]

The GNOME Foundation executive director, Stormy Peters, recently wrote a bit about why the focus on “the KDE versus GNOME” debate is not the real issue. Many commenters on her post agree (while others actively demonstrate) that it is counterproductive.
Peters says the driving force behind both projects is what matters — and that is to [...]

GNOME 2.25.1 Development Release
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And here’s the beginning of a new cycle! 2.25.1 marks the first release
towards our 2.26 release that will happen in March 2009. Until then, I’m
sure we’ll see some good changes going on — like all the efforts about
getting rid of libgnome or cleaning up various things. Isn’t this
wonderful? I do think it [...]

The GNOME Foundation announced today that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.
With these two new additions to its advisory board, the GNOME Foundation continues to strengthen its industry support and shows that the support for free and open source software is growing - especially in the mobile [...]

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GNOME 2.24.1 Stable Release
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This is the first update to GNOME 2.24. Come and see all the bug fixing,
all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to
you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! A lot of work has been
done in the stable branch to make it even more solid than it was.
The next [...]

Last week marked the release of GNOME 2.24. Those who already use GNOME will appreciate the new additions, but there’s nothing compelling enough in the new version to convince fans of other desktop environments to make a switch.
Read more at Linux.com

As you (probably) already know, the most awaited desktop environment of the year, GNOME 2.24 was released two days ago and… it brings a lot of interesting features and new functionality. Just to name a few of them, GNOME 2.24 includes the highly expected Nautilus with tabs, Empathy Instant Messenger, a new time tracker applet, [...]

With GNOME 2.24 having been released this week, attention will soon turn to developing the 2.26 series followed by GNOME 2.28. Following that, at some point in early 2010 we should see the release of GNOME 3.0 (what otherwise would have been known as GNOME 2.30)…
Read more at Phoronix

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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24!
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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of [...]

GTK+ 2.14.2 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.14/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.14/
gtk+-2.14.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: b693a2c1c2dd95457b87d0d042aa5bba
gtk+-2.14.2.tar.gz md5sum: 45eb0991a8daf237eafb17330bbce6a5
This is a bug fix release in the 2.14 series.
What is GTK+
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GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete [...]

GParted is the Gnome front-end to the GNU Parted disk partition editor.
GParted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within.
This GParted 0.3.9 release includes some new features in addition to bug fixes, and language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Reduced time to move or [...]

GNOME 2.24.0 Release Candidate (2.23.92)
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It’s the final countdown. Tadada da, tadada da da, tadada da,
tadadadadada! Hrm. I might be missing a da or two. You’re lucky that you
can’t hear me sing — you’d be quite scared So here we are, with the
release candidate for 2.24.0. It’s this time of the development cycle,
where [...]

I used to think that Gnome 1.4 was the Last Good Gnome. Because when Gnome 2.0 came along, everything I liked was gone. It was dumbed-down to the point of unusability, and the roadmap called for yet more dumbing-down. So I switched to KDE for my main workstation, and IceWM, XFCE, and Blackbox for [...]