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emerge ? |
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-----Forwarded Message----- |
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From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@××××××××××.org> |
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To: GNOME Friends <gnome-announce-list@×××××.org>, GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list@×××××.org> |
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Subject: GNOME Desktop 2.4 Release Candidate 1: "Kublai" |
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 03:49:57 +1000 |
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GNOME Desktop 2.4 Release Candidate 1: "Kublai" |
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The GNOME Desktop 2.4 Release Candidate 1: "Kublai", is available for |
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immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors: |
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.90/sources/ |
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tar.gz: 125M total |
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tar.bz2: 92M total |
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Dear Faithful GNOME Users |
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You may remember the raucous excitement and pure joy of previous GNOME beta |
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releases; wild claims of "ready for human consumption" and "won't crash... |
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much". You may remember sheer delight at the opportunity to try new versions |
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of GNOME without a high probability of turning your desktop inside out, |
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trashing your old settings or spending hours working why your fonts didn't |
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work. Ahh, days of yore. |
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Due to the huge success of our time-based release and 'always buildable, |
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testable and usable from CVS' policies, this GNOME beta does not fulfill the |
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'dangerous fruit' attraction of past beta releases. In fact, the 2.3 series |
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has been a thoroughly stable and comfortable working environment for hackers |
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and dedicated testers throughout its development. |
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You may well ask, "Hey, if this beta release isn't going to kill my hard |
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disk, why should I care?" Sayamindu Dasgupta asked a similar question, and |
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this is what he found out: |
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http://www.ilug-cal.org/GNOME_2_4.html [1] |
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GNOME 2.4 will be our most exciting release to date, with incredible new |
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software, cool new features throughout the desktop, great language support, |
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slick performance improvements, and the breath of fresh air you've come to |
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expect from the desktop that "just works". |
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Please enjoy this beta, and help us find and straighten out the remaining |
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few kinks for our final GNOME 2.4.0 release in early September. For more |
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info, please see our 2.3 start page: |
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http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/ |
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Thanks, |
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- The GNOME Release Team |
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[1] There has been some confusion, referred to in this document, about the |
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software we are shipping with the GNOME 2.4 Desktop release. The canonical |
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reference is our modules list <http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/modules/> and |
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for deeper information <http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1195>, our |
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final 2.4 modules announcement, which documents the decisions pertaining to |
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Galeon, Epiphany, GNOME System Tools, and other modules proposed for 2.4. |
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-- |
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Lloyd D Budd <lloyd@×××××××××××.com> |
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