The first release candidate for GNOME 2.14 is out. This is the last GNOME unstable release before the big .0 release. Lots of new features and bug fixes have been added during this cycle; Davyd’s ‘Look at GNOME 2.14‘ tells you which. Download the platform, desktop, admin and bindings sources.
GNOME 2.14.0-RC Released
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Im running 2.12 with xgl/compiz at the moment. This will polish it all up and it will run nice and sweet.
The linux desktop never looked this sexy
Im running 2.12 with xgl/compiz at the moment. This will polish it all up and it will run nice and sweet.
So do i on Ubuntu 6.04.
Both xgl and compiz significantly contributed to a more speedy desktop experience.
The linux desktop never looked this sexy
🙂
I’m looking forward to Ubuntu 6.04 and Gnome 2.14. That will be very cool!
Same here.
Already here with Ubuntu Dapper no problems
even it’s not released but is feature freeze
One application that got a lot of attention is GNOME Terminal which can now display the entire contents of the dictionary on the screen literally in a second, or in under 2 seconds using antialiased fonts (using antialiased fonts it took xterm 1m 13s to do the same!).
Hurm, wonder what CPU he has there.
1st run
real 0m7.950s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.016s
2nd run
real 0m6.718s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.408s
gnome-terminal-2.13.91
Fedora Rawhide
cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
479625
Ubuntu
cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
98569
Thats why it took longer, 381056 more words in Fedora
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Fedora Rawhide
cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
479625
Ubuntu
cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
98569
”
Useless cat of the week
wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words
Useless redirection of the week. 😉
wc -l /usr/share/dict/words
The output is not the same, your command will also print the filename.
Sorry
Seriously: Much praise to the GNOME and other hackers. Things just keep getting sleaker, faster, and I love the “just make the stuff work” philosophy of the GNOME project. It just keeps getting sexier and sexier with each release!
Thanks, GNOME devs!!!
Add Ubuntu to you list.
Ubuntu devs are contribution a lot to Gnome development as such. The latest dapper release already supports XGL.
Waiting for the final dapper release when Gnome 2.14 final will be a part of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu devs are contribution a lot to Gnome development as such. The latest dapper release already supports XGL.”
Large majority of modules are maintained by Red Hat followed by Novell. Ubuntu merely repackaged and polishes stuff. XGL is packaged in the unsupported universe repository and is not part of core ubuntu.
Vincent Untz, Davyd Madeley, Jeff Waugh (the gnome release manager) all seem to use Ubuntu… these are serious gnome devs / board members and saying they are not is a blatant lie. How can you say that Ubuntu “merely repackaged and polishes stuff” when Canonical, the commercial organization behind Ubuntu, funds core gnome team members like Jeff Waugh?
manmist, I think you are a bit misguided although you are correct in saying Novell/RH fund a lot of gnome development.
Edited 2006-03-02 03:06
“Vincent Untz, Davyd Madeley, Jeff Waugh (the gnome release manager) all seem to use Ubuntu…”
Jeff Waugh is not the release manager. Elijah Newren is. Look at the primary modules maintainers list in GNOME. Nobody from Ubuntu is in the list
“How can you say that Ubuntu “merely repackaged and polishes stuff” when Canonical, the commercial organization behind Ubuntu, funds core gnome team members like Jeff Waugh? ”
How can Jeff Waugh be a core contributor when he is not a developer or doing any significant GNOME contribution at all?
“I think you are a bit misguided although you are correct in saying Novell/RH fund a lot of gnome development. ”
Just shows that you dont follow GNOME development closely.
Jeff Waugh
By day, Jeff Waugh works on Ubuntu business and community development for Canonical. By night, he rides shotgun on the GNOME release juggernaut and plots the Open Source blogging explosion with Planet. Waugh is an active member of the Free Software community, holding positions such as GNOME Release Manager (2001-2005), Director of the GNOME Foundation Board (2003-2005), president of the Sydney Linux User’s Group (2002-2004), and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team. Jeff was awarded the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Evangelist Award for his contribution go Ubuntu and GNOME projects this last Summer. He is a card-carrying member of Linux Australia, but does not say “mate”.
He is a part of current Gnome release team
http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Membership
Release Team Membership
Elijah Newren
Federico Mena-Quintero
Frederic Crozat
Jeff Waugh
John Palmieri
Kjartan Maraas
Luis Villa
Vincent Untz
Yes Ubuntu is a contributor to Gnome.
Lets look at some updated information. Shall we?
http://gnomejournal.org/article/40/behind-the-scenes-jeff-waugh
“I’m the Release Manager Emeritus, which means that I can safely worry myself to sleep, but not have to do anything about it.”
Jeff Waugh is not part of the release team anymore.
“Yes Ubuntu is a contributor to Gnome.”
Yes through packaging and bug fixing. They havent written a single GNOME module yet.
Pardon me for having a job and actually doing something all day… yes I was incorrect about the *current* release manager. That doesn’t mean I was fully incorrect.
I hate to break it to you, but Jeff Waugh does tons of gnome marketing / presentations. In many cases, marketing is *more* important than development. Also, I’m positive that if you look through the gnome cvs, you will find many references to ubuntu/canonical as they have contributed many bugfixes and patches upstream.
Microsoft has a (in some ways) inferior product with a brilliant sales team. Becuase of their sales/marketing juggernaut, they are one top, not because of their developers. Being such a loud promoter of the gnome desktop with numerous presentations and interviews, I would consider Jeff Waugh a core gnome member just as much as I would consider Federico Mena-Quintero. He is the guy who has been optimizing the gnome backend, bit by bit.
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Microsoft has a (in some ways) inferior product with a brilliant sales team. Becuase of their sales/marketing juggernaut, they are one top, not because of their developers.”
You are saying Ubuntu is all about marketing like Microsoft rather than actual development? Not sure how that is a advantage
“Also, I’m positive that if you look through the gnome cvs, you will find many references to ubuntu/canonical as they have contributed many bugfixes and patches upstream. ”
Which is what I said already. They are send fixing some bugs rather than doing any new development within GNOME. None of the GNOME modules are written by Canonical.
“Being such a loud promoter of the gnome desktop with numerous presentations and interviews”
Talk is cheap. Show me the code – Linus
I distinctly refrained from mentioning any specific Distro in my post because a great many of them contribute a very large amount to the GNOME development process; among them Fedora (my personal favorite), Ubuntu, Novell/SUSE, Gentoo, even FreeBSD…and the list would go on for a long time, which you probably don’t want to spend bandwidth on. 😉
The download links above keep failing for me. Here are ones that work:
platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.13/2.13.92/
desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.13/2.13.92/
bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.13/2.13.92/
admin: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/admin/2.13/2.13.92/
Just FYI, Fedora Core scheduled for release on March 15 (same data as GNOME 2.14 release) will have GNOME 2.14 which is already in the test/development releases
http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/
YAY!!
Thanks, Rahul.
a bit off-topic question:
ubuntu 6.04 should come out in april…didn’t they wanted to have a new theme? the flight cds still have the human theme…and the release ist only one month away…
i’m looking forward to check out gnome 2.14 with xgl
Fortunately themes can be changed.
I’m very happy with the way ‘gnome art-manager’ works.
gnome art manager is a awesome piece of kit for downloading themes, shame it’s not intergraded into gnome-theme-manager.
There are quite a few improvements to Gnome in this new release. Compositing in Metacity, desktop search, performance improvements, better GEdit, and much-needed additions to the framework make this an excellent release IMO. I look forward to FC5 (~2 weeks away last I heard) so that I can try these things out on my main desktop.