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Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.26!

Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

The GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.26, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment
and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME
2.26 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to
offer the best experience to users and developers.

For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.26, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.

This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very
much to every one of them!

You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.26 in our release notes:

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/

Most distributions have already started integrating GNOME 2.26 in their
development version, or as package updates to their stable version.

Some parties are already happening in various places to celebrate this
release. But tomorrow morning, you can be sure that GNOME contributors
will already be working on their plans for the next version of GNOME,
due in September, 2009.

Enjoy! And be proud of this release!

- The GNOME Release Team

Full of It's Self

The first thing I do is slap the gnome ui out of the way. The libs are useful as so much is infected with either gnome or kde.

I don't need to be crippled like a windose user. It is much faster to burn from the command line than any of the broken apps that are supposed to make it easy to burn.

The video and sound players are a joke, we have high quality stuff you know, well I guess you don't.

Running Lenny for my first Debian experience, I used Slak since 98, and Fluxbox does a good light job.

Rant over but I have come to hate gnome and kde as much as windose. For similar reasons.