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GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0: ''Mighty Atom''

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2003-04-10 15:38. Gnome 2.x

The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.0 "Mighty Atom", is ready for your
bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on
ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.
tar.gz: 104M total
tar.bz2: 79M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for
testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.3.x series
will eventually become the official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start
page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Proposed Modules
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The following modules have been proposed for inclusion in the next major
GNOME release, and have been released with 2.3.0 for testing:

battfink - Energy saving and battery status utility.

fontilus - Font management and information tools.

galeon - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.

gcalctool - A full-featured calculator.

gnome-mag - Desktop magnification tool.

gok - The 'GNOME On-screen Keyboard', an accessibility tool.

gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.

gucharmap - A full-featured unicode character map tool.

nautilus-cd-burner - Integrated CD burning tool for Nautilus (requires
as-yet-unreleased changes to Nautilus for full integration).

themus - Theme management and information tools.

zenity - Provides graphical prompts and dialogues in shell scripts.

Other modules, such as gnome-speech, gnopernicus, epiphany and gnome-network
have been proposed for inclusion, but not released for testing. These may be
included in a later release.

Build Requirements
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- The tarballs included in the release. :-)

- Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
available for your distribution.

- Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from
http://fontconfig.org/ OR XFree86 4.3.x.

- Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team