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September 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)

GNOME v2.16 brings more features, fewer bugs

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The GNOME Project has released Version 2.16 of its multi-platform desktop environment, delivering several new features and fixes for hundreds of reports bugs.

Among its reported improvements are:

  • tools for managing laptop battery, UPS, and wireless peripheral

  • a new quick-note-taking application called Tomboy

  • an improved menu editor called Alacarte (which Ubuntu users should recognize)

  • a disk-usage-analyzer called Baobab

  • enhancements to the Totem video player; and an improved bug-reporting features.

The desktop runs platforms, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, BSD, and Apple's Darwin. The new version eases porting GNOME tools to Windows, according to the GNOME Project site.

GNOME is part of The GNU Project, and is free software.

Posted by Ted Samson on September 7, 2006 10:05 PM


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