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GNOME 2.20 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2007-09-19 23:05. Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.20, 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 information about GNOME 2.20 in our release notes, linked from the 2.20 start page.

About GNOME 2.20: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2008.

Enjoy!

- The GNOME Release Team

I had been using Linux

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Thu, 2007-09-20 12:02.

I had been using Linux (several distributions, always gnome desktop) exclusively for eight years before, and I'm pretty frustrated with OS X. It's much eye candy but for someone who wants more than email, browsing and iPod synching, Gnome is much more user friendly and more intuitive.

Well put. OS X may be good for the pick-up-the-mouse-between-keystrokes types, but for someone who's used to how a computer works it can be pretty frustrating. I also find Gnome is often better thought out in terms of UI design.

With compiz fusion, Gnome desktops can look better than OS X desktops (IMO. At least you can change the Gnome theme). I'm considering wiping my iBook clean and going with Gnome/Linux in place of OS X.

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