User login

Navigation

Contribute

Interested in contributing to FootNotes? Click here to submit news stories to us or visit this site for more information about available opportunities.

Art.GNOME.org

Error: It's not possible to reach RSS file...

GNOME Support

Friends of GNOME

Now's a good time to say thanks for the best desktop environment on the planet by becoming a Friend of GNOME or by upping your current Friends level. Contribute by joining the Friends of GNOME program. All contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S. Thanks to our generous Friends

Links of Interest

Syndicate

GNOME 2.10 LiveCD passes 50,000 downloads!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-05-03 08:13. Gnome 2.x

The GNOME 2.10 liveCD has surpassed 50,000 downloads! The liveCD project was created to make it easy to sample GNOME 2.10 immediately without waiting for distros, and has succeeded, pretty spectacularly for something that wasn't really quite mastered until the night before the release :) Some planning for the 2.12 release has already started- goals for the next release are to have more involvement from other people, more documents and media to show off, better mono integration, and easier mastering into more languages.

It isn't too late to download it yourself, show it to friends, or to reach more ambitious goals. The Greek GNOME Translation team made up their own Greek 2.10 LiveCD and distributed it at a conference. If you're interested in doing something similar with the 2.10 liveCD for your conference or language, or want to get involved in the planning for 2.12, drop the marketing-list (marketing-list@gnome.org) an email- the marketing team and the Foundation would love to help you help promote GNOME.

Great, keep up the good work!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-05-03 12:55.

I just installed debian w/ Gnome on my friends' machine, GNOME is great, i personally hated all sorts of "Ease of use" features like not being able to tweak GNOME so easily because of the dumbed-down setting menus and stuff, plus the spatial ting of course, but my friend (to my GREAT surprise) liked its uncluttered user friendlyness, so great work guys, really, he is the kind of user to appeal to (not me, who would be happy to use a console all his life :D).

Anyways, having a live CD is always nice, in case you have to be able to work in a hostile (i.e. windows :) ) environment, then just pop in the CD, plus you can advertise Linux to your friends by lending them the CD, it can cause no damage, and they can have a look, without the risks (of e.g. repartitioning their drive).

Máté

» parent