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GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 Development Release

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2005-07-28 08:14. Gnome 2.x

Also known as 2.11.90, GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended
for wide public scrutiny before the final release in September.

platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.11/2.11.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 21M total
tar.bz2: 14M total

desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.11/2.11.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 171M total
tar.bz2: 122M total

bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.11/2.11.90/NEWS
tar.gz: 51M total
tar.bz2: 36M total

For extra excitement this time, you'll need cairo from cvs, or the snapshot
available here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.11/2.11.90/
This is less than ideal, but at least it allows us to test GNOME tarballs
that require it. Cairo 0.6.0 is expected very soon.

TESTING! TESTING! TESTING!
--------------------------

This release is a feature frozen snapshot primarily intended for wide public
scrutiny before the final GNOME 2.12 release in September. GNOME uses odd minor
version numbers to indicate development status. Please check the 2.11 page
for more info:

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

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team

not possible

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-08-01 02:38.

It cannot be a config problem. I used Ubuntu Hoary and the one before, and Mandrakes 9.x and 10.x (now LE2005). They all are slow. To notice the lack of speed, you need to compare with the other desktops on the same machine. KDE is much faster. So are other alternatives (Rox + XFCE, Rox+E).

If you only use Gnome, as you all do, you will not notice it. You need to look at all the palette of the Linux desktops. Then you will conclude that the two characteristic Gnome's weaknesses are lack of speed and the hard configuration (use of obsure keys in GConf editor to set/unset options when they can be configured).

But as I said, speed has clearly improved in the last 2 versions. I hope they can improve the configurability soon.

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