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GNOME 2.6 Rescheduled for March 31st

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2004-03-24 12:35. Gnome 2.x

As a result of the recent web server intrusion, the release team has chosen
to delay the announcement of GNOME 2.6 until March 31st.

While we have determined that none of our released sources were affected, we
are showing due caution by giving the sysadmin team plenty of time to finish
their investigation and restore critical services. Apologies for the delay,
especially for all our friends around the world who have organised GNOME 2.6
release parties!

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-March/thread.html#00113

Many thanks to the (now somewhat underslept) sysadmin team and helpers for
their swift and thorough response. Please raise a toast to them at your 2.6
release party of choice. :-)

-Jeff

Re: GNOME 2.6 Rescheduled for March 31st

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-03-27 03:24.

I agree with most of your points but expecting users to "wait a few years while we sort all of this out" is unrealistic.

The current trends look good: OO.o is becoming more like a Gnome App (there's no reason it can't be just as integrated into Gnome as any other app) and Abiword/Gnumeric are exceptional Gnome Apps that are becoming extremly featureful.

I won't be suprised if both Gnome Office and OO.o borrow more features from one another, too.

"Delivering a usable system NOW" matters to a lot of people. If you want to use a Gnome desktop in business right now (like I do.. have been for years) you are likely to need some features that Abiword/Gnumeric lack and OO.o has.

Trust me though man it probably won't matter much in the end: if things progress in the same way they have been people will have a *choice* of excellent apps and the differences will be mainly academic.

Cheers

Stor

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