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GNOME 2.20 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2007-09-19 23:05. Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.20, 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 information about GNOME 2.20 in our release notes, linked from the 2.20 start page.

About GNOME 2.20: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2008.

Enjoy!

- The GNOME Release Team

Wow!

Submitted by fafnir_b on Thu, 2007-09-20 04:17.

These are really greate release notes. And sounds like good work, too. I especially like the "leave note on locked screen" function. It's probably not of much use (because noone's used to this), but it sure is sweet :)

And evince really starts becoming great, with form editing and image saving there's probably no need any more for the acrobat reader. I'd love to use it as a replacement for gv as postscript viewer, also, but I just miss a "Watch file" mode which is so useful for fake wysiwyg LaTeX. This, and a side panel mode that just has page numbers, instead of full page previews.

Now if only I hadn't moved to a Mac half a year ago... I'm really looking forward to having some time to make the thing a dual boot system, but that will have to wait until I have finished writing my thesis, too much relying on the computer right now. I had been using Linux (several distributions, always gnome desktop) exclusively for eight years before, and I'm pretty frustrated with OS X. It's much eye candy but for someone who wants more than email, browsing and iPod synching, Gnome is much more user friendly and more intuitive. I actually installed a full gnome desktop on top of OS X just to be able to have several desktops and sensible window behaviour (not the Virtue-Desktops crap).

Keep up the good work!

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