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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop
environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the
day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months
releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

19 Sep 08

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29 Jul 08

Gnome 3.0, the next major release of the Unix and Linux desktop, was one of the conference's main topics. There have been intense discussions whether Gnome is stagnating in recent weeks – the twice yearly updates to the current 2.x series deliver steady, but rarely spectacular, new features and improvements.
Gnome co-founder Frederico Mena-Quintero concentrated on the traditional document-centred desktop. Whilst users have no problems with emails, chat or music, they often have trouble finding their documents. Rather than a folder view, he espouses a journal, which shows documents sorted chronologically. According to Mena-Quintero, the idea is nothing new, but with a sensible GUI and in tandem with functions such as tags, it could offer significant improvements for users.

03 Jul 08

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01 Jun 08

PCLinuxOS 2008.1 GNOME gives me a very good impression and I haven't encountered any show-stoppers yet.

27 May 08

Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your files, photos, emails, contacts, notes, calendar data and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

09 May 08

F-Spot organizes your pictures in a folder in your home directory called
Photos. It subdivides that folder into a folder for each year, and those
folders have subfolders for each month and then another for each day. The
program figures out the appropriate dates by reading the EXIF metadata
from the photos themselves. As long as the clock on your digital camera is
set correctly when you take photos, F-Spot files it correctly.
Tags can be nested as well. For example, all of the tags for my children
are nested under a Family tag, and my Wallpapers tag is subdivided into
Abstract, Landscape and Other.
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- Photos also can have more than one tag associated with them, so for photos
  with more than one child in them, I simply tagged them with every child
  in the photo
- Slowness aside, uploading to Flickr
  is fairly painless and much easier than uploading the photos manually.
- F-Spot includes several basic
  photo editing controls.
- Despite these annoyances, F-Spot is off to a great start. It has not
  been around very long, and it already is one of the better Linux photo
  management programs.
- n the end, F-Spot became my photo manager of choice because it
  has brought order and sanity to my ever-growing collection of family
  snapshots. If you're a GNOME user, or curious about Mono, you owe it to
  yourself to give F-Spot a try.