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Rhythmbox 0.9.0

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-08-12 06:25. GNOME

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.9.0

The changes are too numerous to list here, but the main focuses have been on stability and memory usage. So your Rhythmbox should be even more stable, and less resource hungry.

Rhythmbox has moved its development tree back to GNOME's CVS servers, which means it's easier to get a hold of it for people who want to live on the cutting-edge. It also means that development has picked up again (the last release was nearly 10 months ago), and that new features will be coming thick and fast!

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Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-08-15 07:03.

It might have been community driven desktop several years ago. Now it is extremely small and closed 'gnome design team' (see planet gnome for recent flamewar on that) backed by Redhat and Novell that decides everything. Community has been gladly traded for 'corporate support' and nice jobs for several developers.
But this is just learning the hard way that there is nothing for free.
Your argument about additional dependencies just does not fly - see how much dependencies GNOME has today. Dozens! And GNOME itself is splitted into multitude packages. So really, adding 6 more would be nothing. And it would allow inclusion of f-spot, beagle, etc. Do you honestly thing it is bad deal? If you want real reason find Havoc Pennington's blog entry where he says that Redhat won't include mono because... reason is secret. Sorry man, as long as Redhat won't accept mono it won't be used in GNOME and community can do nothing about it.

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