GNOME 3.2 Released ==================== Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.2, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. With this timely release, we are continuing our very successful, reliable six month release cycle into the GNOME 3 era. GNOME 3.2 is the first major [...]

While not replacing the Nautilus file manager or playing a major role within the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.2, there is a new GNOME file manager available. This new GNOME file manager just had its first official release and it’s being called the Emperor file manager. The file manager is inspired by Midnight Commander while having a [...]

Hello all, It’s the last step, it’s the release candidate, it’s shining gold, it’s 3.1.92, it’s out! So, what are you waiting for? Download it! Build it! Test it! Try to break it! The more you are, the more you do, the best we can make GNOME 3.2. Coming next week. To compile GNOME 3.1.92, [...]

A few days late, the second GNOME 3.2 beta build has arrived. Codenamed GNOME 3.1.91, the second beta continues to fix the remaining bugs and puts the finishing touches on the upcoming stable release, slated for the end of the month. Major updates in GNOME 3.1.91 (3.2 Beta 2) include the fact that core modules [...]

A lot of people hate Canonical’s Unity desktop, but a lot of people also hate the current state of the GNOME 3.0 Shell too. For those that are still fond of the GNOME 2.x environment, there is a fork of GNOME2 that’s been little talked about up to this point. This fork is called the [...]

GNOME 3.1.2 Development Release =============================== Fourth update to GNOME 3.0, first update of the development release available at last (as it was delayed). To compile GNOME 3.1.2, use jhbuild [1] and the modulesets and .jhbuildrc file used on this release [2]. [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ [2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.1.2 If you want to know what is new on this [...]

GTK+ 3.0.11 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/3.0/ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/3.0/ 852d848e2e51373daf04446dc7b427f91bf6953632b45fbe173fb5ed0694100f gtk +-3.0.11.tar.bz2 e2e38b316c4657df0cf376c3b6aad63158a9068c557ad41033a677f29967001b gtk +-3.0.11.tar.xz This is the another bug fix release in the stable 3.0 series, mainly aimed at making accessibility work better. ============ GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable [...]

Gnome 3 is the first major release of the popular desktop environment in over eight years. Many identify Gnome as being the face of Linux, because most early distros (and many current ones, of course) adopted the desktop in order to put bells and whistles on the ever-maturing kernel at the back. Gnome 3 is [...]

Those that follow my Twitter feed know that over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the various open-source and closed-source graphics drivers. But it was not like the usual Phoronix benchmarks simply comparing the driver performance. Instead it was to see how each driver performed under the various desktops / window managers now [...]

Hi! This is the second update to GNOME 3.0. It contains the usual mixture of bug fixes, translations updates and documentation improvements that are the hallmark of the rock solid stable GNOME releases, many thanks to our wonderful team of GNOME contributors! Also, thanks to all the people that help me in this my first [...]

Last week marked the end of the feature proposal for GNOME 3.2, for the first major update to the GNOME3 desktop. The GNOME 3.2 release schedule has the final release set for the end of September. In this article is a list of some of the features that were brought up for GNOME 3.2. The [...]

Take this one with a pinch of hearty pinch of salt for now, but, in a post to the GNOME Developer Mailing List, Jon McCann – a tour de force in the GNOME world and pioneer of GNOME Shell itself – has urged that GNOME not only become an OS, but forgo keeping support for [...]