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GNOME 2 Released, Presents Challenge to KDE

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 26, 2002 at 16:6:36

The Gnome Foundation announced the final release of the much touted, much delayed GNOME 2 desktop environment today. As the desktop of choice for RedHat Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, as well as Solaris and HP/UX, the significance of this release is only rivaled by KDE3’s release in April.

GNOME 2 brings to the table a large number of improvements, including:
  • Improved usability and consistency.
  • Faster loading speeds.
  • Better accessibility functionality.
  • Font Anti-Aliasing.
  • Improved control center.
You can find the full details of the release at the GNOME2 release page. You can also find an insightful opinion piece on the future of KDE and GNOME at LinuxandMain.com.

-Timothy R. Butler</>


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Here is a story. The leaders of a church have a personal agenda against someone and want to quiet him, exact revenge or what have you. They not only come at him within their church, they continue by following him outside of that church to any other church he seeks refuge at and any place he works, making a wreck of his life in the process. That is the sort of thing that only happened in the past, in dusty tales of witch-hunts in Salem or the Inquisition in Spain, right? Wrong: it is happening today, perhaps at a seemingly normal church near you.

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