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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

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, 2003-09-18 15:41.

You are an idiot. Stalin didn't kill anybody and he never ordered to kill anybody either, unlike Hitler.

Just shows that in the the mass media manipulates people's minds.

Here's a clue for you: Communists fought against enemies of the state and they used state power. That is this fight was legal. Got it? You may not agree with it, but it was legal. But enemies of the state had infiltrated the state and misused their power to persecute innocent people. When communists saw that, that did everything to stop it. The head of NKVD (KGB), Ezhov, and many other agents were judged in court and found guilty for misuse of power.

Basically it wasn't Stalin's fault, and the guilty people were brought to justice in USSR.

If you really want to learn something about this time I suggest you read something that wasn't intended as propaganda for the public. Read scientific papers and dissertations.

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