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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.14!

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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

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 contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.14 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.14 start page.

All about GNOME 2.14: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in September, 2006.

Enjoy!

- The GNOME Release Team

Terminal speed

I *knew* there was a reason I use rxvt...

In repeated tests I just ran dumping a 15MB set of logs file to equally sized terminal windows, it's 50% faster than both xterm and GNOME 2.12.3 terminal, and both xterm & rxvt use only a small fraction of the amount of RAM that gnome-term uses.

rxvt - 14 seconds
xterm - 21 seconds
gnome-term - 21 seconds