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Announcing: GNOME 2.4.0 Desktop & Developer Platform

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2003-09-10 16:57. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

In the 13th century, a man called Temujin came to be known as Genghis Kahn,
"Greatest of Rulers" and "Warrior of Warriors". By the time of his death,
the Mongol empire extended from Hungary to Korea, and from Siberia to Tibet.

Often referred to as 'the Mongol hordes', and considered barbaric, his army
was, in reality, a thoroughly modern military outfit in medieval times. They
were swift, precise, equipped with superior technology, ingenious in their
approach to war, keenly organised and consistently outnumbered - not that it
detracted from their exploits on the battlefield.These same qualities have been instrumental to GNOME's success. Our regular,
high quality releases, speedy turnaround, fresh approach to Free Software
usability and dynamic organisation have supercharged the project - you can
sense the deep, personal pride in every aspect of our work, from the source
code to the translations that make GNOME a comfortable home for our users
all around the world.

So it is in the spirit of Temujin and his nomadic warriors that we bring you
The GNOME 2.4.0 Desktop & Developer Platform.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every GNOME 2.4.0 contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.4 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.4 start page. You can also check out our gallery of
cool screenshots from dedicated GNOME users and testers!

While you are enjoying 2.4, the GNOME development team is rushing back to
the coalface, eager to work on awesome new stuff for our next release - in
fact, we've already started! Stay tuned for more information about the 2.5
development series, coming soon...

- The GNOME Release Team

GNOME 2.4: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/
Release Notes: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/
GNOME FTP: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.4/

Also, Andrew Sobala notes:
"Many thanks to all the people who sent me screenshots; I'm sorry that
for various reasons, there were a very few great screenshots that I
couldn't use."

Re: It's a bad comparison

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2003-09-11 10:22.

Well - I for one lightened up a lot, when I read the comparison between GNOME and Chinggis Khan!

Why you ask!?? Because I've been living in Mongolia for ½ a year, and I have never met any other people, who are more proud of being who they are.

And why are they proud, you ask!?? Because Chinggis Khan made Mongolia the greatest (great as in size) nation in all known history, ruling Asia from the Pacific Ocean to Poland, and from Siberia to India - when it was at the top.

Chinggis Khan did this with less than one million horseriders, and he was the greatest diplomate of that time - if the conquered people would follow him, and not stand against him, they were spared, and would be part of the mongolian people. In this way he ruled over the best medicians, the best blacksmiths, the best militia and everything else, because he used the peoples knowledge to develop his own peoples skills and wisdom.

In this way, Chinggis became the ultimate ruler of any people, as he didn't care for their religion or anything else - they just had to follow him.

The mongolians today are therefore very proud of their fierce ruler, and honour him everyday still - as I am very proud of using GNOME everyday, and in some way honour the developers by using this great desktop everyday.

Nice comparison. Just some thoughts...

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