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Gnome Linux To Attack Windows
News A high-profile group of companies is expected to back the Gnome Linux interface as a serious competitor to Windows on desktop systems. The software developer is charged with helping commercialise the Gnome Linux desktop, which is developed by the...
[August 15, 2000, 8:45]
Gnome Linux Desktop Updated
News Gnome is, along with KDE, one of the two major desktop environments used with Linux-based operating systems. Gnome is the favoured desktop environment for Ubuntu, the most popular desktop-oriented Linux distribution.
[January 31, 2008, 17:11]
Linux Users Warned Over GNOME Attack
News Several flaws in common Linux code used to process graphics in the GNOME desktop environment could allow an attacker to compromise a computer that displays a malicious image file, a security group warned this week.
[December 9, 2004, 8:35]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback Gnu Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) tries to be a 'mostly' clean and simple to use with nothing flashy. They aim for different things. Sure they are both 'Desktop Environments' but that is about all they have in common.
[October 12, 2005, 20:21]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback Yawn, KDE is making all the progress on flash effects and gizmos, while GNOME has been guilty of looking too hard at HIG (something KDE needs to cover) at the expensive of speed tweaks The thing that sucks is that there are two projects covereing...
[October 11, 2005, 12:08]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback I wouldn't have expected such anti-Qt FUD from someone so high in GNOME hierarchy. Yawn. It really gets old. Someone with practical experience knows that the productivity gain of Qt is much more important than the license fee you have to pay (if...
[October 10, 2005, 21:07]
Linux Users Warned Over GNOME Attack
Talkback 1) Isn't this old news? From the article, it isn't clear if this is a new potential vulnerability in a graphics library, or if this is the same one that i seem to recall hearing about at least a month or two ago (which i'm pretty sure has already...
[December 9, 2004, 21:12]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback No FUD As far as I can see, it is factually correct. You do need a paying license to develop software that is not GPL compatible for Qt. The cost is trivial for a larger outfit of course, but it is not cheap for a small shop (1-5 developers or so).
[October 11, 2005, 1:04]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback Well it seems to be far from reality. If you count the number of application crash events just due to the interface library used and classify them based on the library used, GTK+ will have a greater share.
[October 11, 2005, 15:39]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback > The cost is trivial for a larger outfit of course, but it is not cheap for a small shop (1-5 developers or so). You've never been in a small development shop then. They spend thousand on development tools, and you might as well ask for free...
[October 11, 2005, 15:37]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback I would just have expected better from a representative of the GNOME foundation. > As far as I can see, it is factually correct. You do need a paying license to develop software that is not GPL compatible for Qt.
[October 11, 2005, 3:02]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
News GNOME developers are making various changes to the open source desktop environment that should make it more suitable for embedded environments. Future versions of GNOME will include improved compatibility with styluses and performance enhancements...
[October 10, 2005, 16:35]
GNOME 2.10 Ups Multimedia Support
News GNOME 2.10, the latest version of the GNOME Linux desktop environment, has gained new multimedia applications including a video player and CD ripper. GNOME 2.10 is already available in SuSE Linux Professional 9.3, which was also released last week.
[March 14, 2005, 14:50]
Is Dell Linux's New Best Friend?
News Dell Computer is set to give its "third strategic operating system" -- aka, Linux -- a major shot in the arm next Monday, when it is expected to unveil a pre-load deal for the Gnome Linux desktop on Dell business PCs.
[December 1, 2000, 7:32]
GNOME 2.10 Reaches Beta
News The next stable version of Linux desktop environment GNOME, which was released in beta last week, includes an improvement to the Evolution mail client. GNOME developer Thomas Wood said developers have added plug-in capabilities to Evolution, so...
[February 8, 2005, 16:30]
Linux: Lost In The Trough Of Disillusionment?
Talkback The Linux Gnome Desktop have today turned into something that is simple, elegant, and it just works. Since then there have been four new releases of the Gnome desktop environment, each of them with significant improvements on performance...
[September 10, 2005, 11:22]
New Gnome Software Emerges
News With the latest edition of the Gnome desktop software for Linux and Unix operating systems, the software's developers say that integration is key. The feature uses a specification from Freedesktop.org, a project that works on improving...
[February 6, 2003, 13:25]
GNOME: We Have Feature Parity With Windows
News An upgraded GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix is due for release this Wednesday, with its authors pitching enhanced features for end-users and a commitment to make hardware "just work". Popular Linux and Unix desktop environments such as...
[September 15, 2004, 10:40]
Slackware Ditches GNOME Service
News Linux distribution Slackware has dropped the GNOME desktop environment from its version of the open source operating system, claiming that it is too much work to maintain it. The most recent release of Slackware, version 10.1, included three Linux...
[March 29, 2005, 16:30]
GNOME Gives Peek Into Next-gen Linux Desktop
News Free-software developers have released the first pre-release of the next generation of GNOME, one of several Linux desktop environments that make the operating system simpler to use. GNOME, along with other GNU/Linux offshoots like KDE and Ximian...
[October 5, 2001, 16:30]
