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Dropline GNOME 2.12.1 "64 drops" (x86_64) has been released

Submitted by ScottHarmon on Sun, 2005-11-20 20:19. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

We are pleased to announce the release of Dropline GNOME 2.12.1 ported to Slamd64 10.2 Linux (compiled for x86_64 architecture).
An ISO image is available to download through bittorrent, a direct ISO download is also available from a mirror.

This is our first port to x86-64 architecture and as such there may be bugs, please report them to our bug tracking page.

Enjoy!

-The dropline GNOME Development Team

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Took Me By Surprise Too. :)

Submitted by zborgerd on Tue, 2005-11-22 19:15.

Diffie, one of the DLG developers, got a wild hair and decided to start porting DLG a few weeks ago. He did it primarily on his own, with some assistance from a few DLG users. Most of us DLG devs are still running on 32 bit processors, but we hope to be able to join in on the development of DLG for x86_64 as well.

http://dropline-gnome.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4625

From what I understand, it's still a work in progress, but it allegedly works quite well so far.

That took me by suprise

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-11-22 14:12.

Right, and it seems to run very well so far. I have to give it to the Dropline team, for a first release and the porting efforts, nice job!

I have not tried the Freerock x86_64 port of GNOME, how does this compare to Dropline's port to Slamd64, if anyone have tried both please share your opinions.