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Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop and Developer Platform (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica has posted a lengthy review of GNOME 2.4.
"GNOME 2.4 brings to the Linux desktop considerable polish, accessibility and consistency. This release is a culmination of the work done by commercial vendors and the GNOME community, as evidenced by the fact that three vendors--Sun, Red Hat and Ximian--have already shipped desktops focused on the GNOME 2 platform. The end result is a pleasant desktop that is nimble, attractive and unobtrusive. While it's not perfect, the foundation is now there and the overall product has matured."
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Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop and Developer Platform (Ars Technica) Posted Sep 10, 2003 15:11 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] The end result is a pleasant desktop that is nimble, attractive and unobtrusive.Well this I have to try. "Nimble" is not a word that I would use to describe any previous version of GNOME.
Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop and Developer Platform (Ars Technica) Posted Sep 10, 2003 19:05 UTC (Wed) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] Indeed. I run GNOME 2.2/2.4 (Debian Sid) on a 200 MHz StrongARM-based Netwinder (i.e. same CPU as iPaq, Palm Tungsten, etc.), and even at 1600x1200 with antialiased fonts and SVG icons everywhere, it is a very satisfying desktop -- which is to say, quite a bit faster and more responsive ("nimble") than older GNOME releases, from panel/menus to Nautilus. I am very impressed!The only trouble is that the current Mozilla doesn't work on ARM (Debian bug 180031, same behavior for non-snapshot), so Epiphany won't even install completely on my machine. :-(
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