GNOME 2.24 Released 163
thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.
Re:timothy (Score:2, Funny)
He's referring to Ekiga's tendency to fire little bits of rock and gravel at people. It's a feature.
Good! (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent!
Now when can I expect this in my Intrepid Ibex repositories, mmm?
Mandatory puns:
"Glad to see Linux really putting it's best foot forward in the GUI department."
"The new Gnome is a feet of software engineering."
"Maybe I'll revert from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, dip my toe in and see what it's like."
"I hope the new version doesn't have a much bigger footprint."
Re:Huge number of bugs? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, there's the theory that every program contains at least one bug and can therefore be reduced in size by at least one instruction. Iteratively then, every program can be reduced to a single instruction which doesn't work.
Re:New? WTF (Score:1, Funny)
Not everybody can march in the parade. Some of us have to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
-Will Rogers