Skip navigation.

Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.16!

Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.16 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.16 start page.

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2007.

I am hoping this is exactly

I am hoping this is exactly what comes out of the next release of Ubuntu :)

And you are right, if the linux desktops really want to market this stuff to the average Joe Public, then it needs to work out of the box, with a few tick boxes, just like enabling/disabling the graphics/theme options in Windows XP.