GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 1: "Jelme" Released

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GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 1: "Jelme" Released
Aug 17, 2003, 23 :16 UTC (0 Talkback) (421 reads)
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GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 1: "Jelme"

The GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 1: "Jelme", is available for immediate download on ftp ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.6/sources/

tar.gz:120M total
tar.bz2: 90M total

Dear Faithful GNOME Users

You may remember the raucous excitement and pure joy of previous GNOME beta releases; wild claims of "ready for human consumption" and "won't crash... much". You may remember sheer delight at the opportunity to try new versions of GNOME without a high probability of turning your desktop inside out, trashing your old settings or spending hours working why your fonts didn't work. Ahh, days of yore.

Due to the huge success of our time-based release and 'always buildable, testable and usable from CVS' policies, this GNOME beta does not fulfill the 'dangerous fruit' attraction of past beta releases. In fact, the 2.3 series has been a thoroughly stable and comfortable working environment for hackers and dedicated testers throughout its development.

You may well ask, "Hey, if this beta release isn't going to kill my hard disk, why should I care?" Sayamindu Dasgupta asked a similar question, and this is what he found out:

http://www.ilug-cal.org/GNOME_2_4.html

GNOME 2.4 will be our most exciting release to date, with incredible new software, cool new features throughout the desktop, great language support, slick performance improvements, and the breath of fresh air you've come to expect from the desktop that "just works".

Please enjoy this beta, and help us find and straighten out the remaining few kinks for our final GNOME 2.4.0 release in early September. For more info, please see our 2.3 start page:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Thanks,

    * The GNOME Release Team

carlos

er... 我的2.3.5还没摸熟，就beta1了...