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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!

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

Hi. I'm the same anonymous

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Sat, 2006-09-09 01:15.

Hi. I'm the same anonymous poster from earlier.

>I'm curious as to what your hardware is. I know nVidia drivers
>we're still waiting on, and are coming out in a month or two.

I have a nVidia GeForce 6800 in my desktop ande a nVidia Geforce 6600 Go in my laptop. They have solid drivers for gaming in Windows and hassle-free (if not actually Free) linux drivers.

>And the important thing is that, while I don't have these
>effects either, the groundwork has been laid, and now its
>just about deployment to different hardwares.

I'm glad that technical progress is being made, but enough with the teaser shots already.

Sometimes, hacking and playing and compiling and exploring is fun. But when I just want something to work, hacking and playing and compiling and exploring is a headache. I know what I want now that I've seen the screenshots. That's what gets me.

I just want the coolness to be kept out of sight until it's actually ready to go. That means that all it should take to get it working is open up a preferences panel and check a couple of boxes. No compiling. No limitations based on hardware except maybe based on the performance of the hardware. No reading man pages and no editing configuration files.

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