GNOME 2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform Released

From the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the GNOME Foundation has put out a press release announcing the release of the 2.0 GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform.

"With the inclusion of GNOME 2.0 by leading Linux and Unix vendors later this year, users of GNOME can look forward to an improved user environment for existing GNOME applications, including a faster and more powerful Nautilus file manager, features that are better organized and usability-tested, dozens of useful utilities, applications and even games. Users and administrators will also see a new, simplified configuration system. Developers can look forward to more efficient application development with stronger integration of GNOME APIs and the advantages of GNOME's component-based architecture.

GNOME Foundation board chair Havoc Pennington promoted the GTK+ 2.0 toolkit:

"The industrial-strength GTK+ 2.0 toolkit, combined with add-on tools such as Glade, Python and our CORBA implementation make GNOME the natural choice for developers on a variety of platforms. GNOME's component-based architecture makes it possible for developers to use already existing tools, libraries and features, cutting development time significantly."

GNOME2 will be included with major Linux distributions, HP-UX from Hewlett Packard, and Solaris from Sun.

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