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The GNOME Journal, September Edition

Submitted by claus on Fri, 2005-09-16 06:04. GNOME

The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. It
features a look at GNOME's Summer of Code participation by Julien Gilli
and Akbar Pasha, Peer to Peer document collaboration with GOCollab by
Claus Schwarm and Martin Sevior, an introduction to the Banshee Music
Player by Ken VanDine, the description of a GNOME deployment in Austria
by Murray Cumming, Remote Desktop Administration using Vino by Marcus
Bauer, and notes on translating GNOME by Runa Bhattacharjee.

The GNOME Journal features original content and commentary for and by
the GNOME community. All articles are published under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Wow indeed

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-09-17 05:50.

This really sounds nice.

The only problem is that Abiword and Gnumeric have too little presens in the windows world, and that there is no powerpoint like application in the Gnome office suit, not to mention an MS-Access like database application.

This means that most Linux distros will not install the Gnome suit by default. It will be all OpenOffice.org as that will allow the users to interoperate with that other OS that have about 90% of the market. This is how it works today, and this feature is not likely going to change that.

So, I suspect this feature will not end up on most users desktop until they get it from Opeoffice or, oh horror MS-Office. Having a working implementation could serve as an inspiration to developers of more widely spread office suits though.

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