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GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. A long while ago, I pledged Magnatune to pay 10% of its sales due to Rhythmbox (a fantastic music player for Linux), back to the GNOME Foundation. Today, I wrote the check. Today, we had a breakthrough; the boldest, baddest synthesis for a desktop we have ever hit upon. For a desktop redesign with a 6 hr genesis it is relatively concrete, its not handwavy, its not buzzword-y, its not taillight chasing. It is targeted at a whole mess of real pains (both little jabs and big [...] The first beta release (2.29.90) towards GNOME 2.30 has hit the streets. This release is the beginning of the user interface (UI) freeze. Note that this release is not yet ready for production use, but is suitable for developers and testers who are working towards 2.30. There are concerns in the GNOME accessibility development community about what the Oracle takeover of Sun means for the efforts led by Sun’s Accessibility Project Office (APO). Orca project lead Willie Walker has been laid off and is looking for work, possibly in areas that will not allow him to continue contributing to Orca. In [...] The latest GNOME Journal has hit the streets. Issue 18, published on February 5, is a special edition focusing on multimedia, and a wrap-up of the GNOME Boston Summit by Jason Clinton. Four articles are by first time GNOME Journal contributors! Pitivi by Jono Baco New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q4 2009 Quarterly report[1] (HTML version[2]). Q4 is normally a quiet quarter — but not for GNOME! During Q4 we had our annual GNOME Asia, GNOME Forum Brazil and Boston Summit events as well as a record [...] Gstyle is a new full Gnome theme manager with some really great features which I am sure you will love if you like to customize your Desktop look constantly. Gstyle can automatically download and install wallpapers, Xsplash, GTK themes, icon themes, full themes, mouse pointers and more from gnome-look, deviantart, customize.org and others, or directly [...] GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. Back in December Zeitgeist 0.3 was released with many changes and its engine was even largely reworked. Since then there have been a few point releases as GNOME Zeitgeist is in the process of being stabilized for a Zeitgeist 0.4 release in time for GNOME 2.30. Yesterday afternoon Zeitgeist 0.3.2 was released to deliver on [...] Does GNOME 3.0 necessarily need 3D acceleration? Do GNOME 2.0 apps run under 3.0? A website tries to provide answers to some unsettling questions. Attention all lovers of Spicy Vegetables and Speeches! GNOME 2.29.4 Development Release ================================================================== Reading the recent discussions about GNOME’s position in the GNU Project, I’m reminded of Utah Phillip’s comment that “a long memory is the most radical notion in history.” The way that the discussion has been reported in the media, you would hardly guess that the discussion is the latest round in an ongoing and disquieting [...] GNOME 2.29.2 Development Release The GNOME release team has announced that GNOME 3 will be released in September 2010, and that GNOME 2.30 will come in March 2010. “Thanks to the input from the community, we were able to draw a clear picture of where we stand today and where we will be next March. As mentioned in the [...] GNOME 2.29.1 Development Release ============================================= | |||||
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