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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-09-06 15:25. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, 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 2.16 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.16 start page.

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2007.

metacity compositor

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-09-08 02:52.

The release notes say that all of the cool visual effects only work on certain hardware and are not available at all unless a certain option is enabled at compile time.

Yet around half of the screenshots are showing off these effects. I'm quite jealous since I have an unsupported card along with an aversion to compiling my own sofware.

And I'm ticked that I'm constantly teased by screenshots of things that aren't actually available and don't work out of the "box" when they are.

Personally, I don't want to see another screenshot of something transparent, shadowed, fuzzy, wobbly, zoomed or warped until it's happening live on the computer in front of me.

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